A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

Chester Brown

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

H. L. Mencken

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Sarah McLachlan

We read to know we are not alone.

C.S. Lewis

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

Ben Stiller

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Maya Lin

... Andrew wanted to tell him to wait, because only the previous week she had burst from one of those little houses and come running up the pavement (it had been acceptable to watch, because everyone had been watching), and the sigh of her running had been enough to occupy his thoughts for hours, but the driver hauled at the big wheel and the bus set off again. Andrew returned to his contemplation of the dirty window with an ache in his heart and in his balls.

J.K. Rowling

I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'

Regina King

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

Ben Jipcho

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell