The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

Eddie Van Halen

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you!

Plato

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

Barbara Pym

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

Terry Pratchett

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.

John Osborne

Veronika brought her interior monologue to a close and made a promise to herself: she would not leave Villete alive. It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die.

Paulo Coelho

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

John Wesley

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Shawn Wayans

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Leo Buscaglia

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

Marcel Masse