I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Henry Miller

I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.

V.S. Carnes

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

Nikos Kazantzakis

A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies of my Government and the Republic.

Jean Baptiste Bernadotte

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Ellen DeGeneres

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank A. Clark

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Donald Knuth

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

Neil Gaiman

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

So he swears he'll mever marry Says that cuddles are a curse Just tell him plain You're on the next train If love don't get you first

Laura Nyro

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

Emily Giffin