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“society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.”
Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.”
Source : Interview With Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011. 
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“The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.”
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“There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.”
Source : Twitter post from Dec 12, 2012
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“Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.”
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“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”
Source : Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation
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“Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended.”
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“Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.”
