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August 8, 2010

"Everybody wants money — that's why they call it money!"  (David Mamet, American playright, screenwriter and director)

August 1, 2010

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."  (Blaise Pascal)

"Nothing you can believe is not coming true."  (Don Delillo, Underworld)

July 30, 2010

"An ounce of behavior is worth more than a pound of words."  (Sanford Meisner, American acting instructor)

"I'm burning bridges and you're on one of them."  (Thomas Howard Wells II)

July 22, 2010

"I should never have switched from scotch to martinis."  (Humphrey Bogart, his last words)

July 18, 2010

"I've no public school scruples about hitting girls. If you slap my face — by God, I'll lay you out!"  (John Osborne, Look Back in Anger)

"My own vegetarianism had been prompted by self-interest. I wanted to confound my pitted complexion, implacable daily headaches, throbbing glands, dish-cloth hair and dandruff. That my appearance had marginally improved (though not the headaches) was no doubt due a little to less toxic input ... Meat could be equated with inner squalor. Vegetarianism might banish that, too."  (John Osborne, Almost a Gentleman)

July 14, 2010

"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."  (William Blake, Proverbs of Hell)

"Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead."  (William Blake, Proverbs of Hell)

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