Favorite Quotes: Two things always look better in the movies...

"Two things always look better in the movies...mental institutions and war."

         Barbara Gordon,  I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Favorite Quotes: How to have few regrets

"The fact that [Kay] Boyle preferred to live her life rather than examine it, eventually, her biographer says, 'diminished her as an artist' and always 'diminished her as a mother.'  Yet except for her championing of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers, Boyle had few regrets about her decisions.  The writer Grace Paley, who got to know her late in her life, observed that people with full sex lives don't have regrets."

                 

(I don't know where I got this quote.)

Favorite Quotes: The Best Thing for Being Sad...

"'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something.  That is the only thing that never fails.  You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds.  There is only one thing for it then--to learn.  Learn why the world wags and what wags it.  That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.'"

T.H. White,  The Once and Future King