Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Kenneth Burke

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heinrich Heine

Once your excuses are gone, you will simply have to settle for being awesome!

Lorii Myers

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.

Russell Green

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James Gunn

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

Margaret Smith

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Rosemarie DeWitt

I can't tell someone that their dreams are impossible.

Paulo Coelho

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

Mary J. Blige

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blaise Pascal