"I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first."

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going.”

“A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.”

“Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.”

“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”

“Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.”

Source : "'I dropped down to 7st and cried a lot': Minnie Driver on how Hollywood fame made her miserable". Stylist Magazine, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 8, 2012.

“The main thing was finding this... voice that I had interest in, which I'll call the quiet-yet-stoic voice: the very quiet yet very strong voice that I developed, that people would want to hear and that was worth paying attention to.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

“Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.”