"To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships."

“I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.”

Source : Interview with Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2000.

“He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out.”

“Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?”

“And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.”

“The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.”

Source : Marsden Hartley (1998). “Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley”, p.135, MIT Press

“Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.”

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”

“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.”