Quote of the Day

"I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done."

"Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake."

"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."

"An idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man."

"Knowledge is power."

"It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law."

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."