"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."

“Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?”

“Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.”

“The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.”

“your soul needs to be lonely so that its strangest elements can moil about, curl and growl and jump, fail and get triumphant, all inside you. Sociable people have the most trouble hearing their unconscious. They have trouble getting rid of clichés because clichés are sociable.”

Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

“Most dogs, when you hold a leash up, go nuts and run to the door. Crash, on the other hand barely looks up from his spot on the couch. His expression is saying, What the hell are you doing with that thing?”

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”

“I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.”

“What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.”

Source : Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”