"Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh."

“The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.”

Source : George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

“When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.”

“Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.”

Source : "Alec Baldwin: A 'Rock' Throughout The Ages". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 25, 2012.

“Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.”

“The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music--it's the new baby--and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.”

“Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly”

“The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.”

“I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.”

Source : "Tomlin Looks Ahead". Interview with Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. August 01, 2009.