"Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?"

“'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.”

“The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.”

“It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its jagged light stretching from the sky to the ground, '-it's still beautiful. Sometimes you find something that makes this all worth it. And when you do, you hang onto it for as long as you can.' He turned to me, shrugging one shoulder. 'That's the best you can do.”

“A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be invisible.”

“Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you make the grade? What catapulted you into consciousness? There must be some kind of natural process behind this astonishing leap, but this process is obscure.”

“My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.”

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky's commencement address at Williams College (1984), as quoted in Robert Inchausti "Thinking through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times" (p. 110), 2014.

“I have always seen cold and controlled men as the right ones for me.”

Source : "Elisabetta Canalis on George Clooney Split: 'Break-ups Are a Personal Failure'". Chi Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. September 08, 2011.