Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

Don Winslow

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Adam Ant

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it!

J.C. McClean

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Gates McFadden

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

Bible

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Michel Foucault

Coffee - the favorite drink of the civilized world.

Thomas Jefferson

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

Sir Winston Churchill

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

Mary Catherine Bateson, Peripher

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

Michael Jackson