"That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy."

“I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen,”

“These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.”

“You came along and changed everything. I don’t want to be some guy you’re fooling around with anymore, Rylann. I want to be with you all the way.”

“I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.”

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

“Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.”

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.35, New York : Howe & Bates

“All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that.”