Truman Capote

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're Chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody has for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

This quote is said by the character of Paul Varjak in Truman Capote's Play, Breakfast at Tiffany's. Capote (1934-1984) was an American writer whose short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are considered literary classics. At least 20 films and television drama have been produced from Capote's stories, the most famous of which was Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) which starred Audrey Hepburn.

Almost Famous

Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.

This is said by the character of Penny Lane in the movie Almost Famous. The movie is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a fifteen year old boy on assignment from Rolling Stone Magazine. The main character, WIlliam Miller, tours with a late 60's rock band while conducting interviews for his story and learns about life as a rock star and as an adult.

Forbes Watson

None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones.

Forbes Watson was an art commentator for the New Yorker and New York Evening Post during the 1920s. He is best known for being the editor of The Arts, a lively and influential art magazine and vocally advertising his anti-authority outlook on life.