"If you reach for the stars you may find yourself touching the sky."

“Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.817, Agate Digital

“It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.”

“The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.”

“Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.”

“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

“Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.”

“To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.”

“If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.”