The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Alice Walker

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

Mary McCarthy

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Ben Stein

When I was born the doctor turned me upside down and said, my god twins

Rodney Dangerfield

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

Leonard Cohen

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Julie Benz

Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

Orson Scott Card

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence,

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Victor Hugo

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.

Pat Summerall

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

Richard Russo