My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

A man who has been bent on it for nearly three score years, who has nurtured it from a tiny, poisonous seed to a living, choking flower. He will see it through, unless you end him first.

Cassandra Clare

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

John Gay

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Morgan Freeman

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Soren Kierkegaard

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

An erotic life is, for more and more people, that which can be captured on digital photographs and on video. And perhaps the torture is more attractive, as something to record, when it has a sexual component.

Susan Sontag

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

Andy Dick

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Haruki Murakami

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Natalie Clifford Barney

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton