It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

Jack Welch

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Mitt Romney

We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is a darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate from us. If ever you love a woman, Rand, leave her and let her find another. It will be the best gift you can give her.

Robert Jordan

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Golo Mann

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Bette Davis

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

Jacqueline Carey

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Walt Whitman

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Peter Guber

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.

Doc Hastings

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker