You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. – Sheila Graham
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts,” Saturday Night Live
In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan – my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents. – Phil Collins
Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything — history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch. – J. A. Primo De Rivera
