I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt...

Jean Rostand

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

Anton Chekhov

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

Lee Westwood

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Tanya Tucker

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Joseph Stalin

I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.

Tim Robbins

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.

Oscar Wilde

I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.

Wanda Sykes

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.

Mike Wilson

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Jim Bishop, Age of Consent to Wh

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

Scarlett Johansson