My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.

There is properly no history; only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplier

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Dirk Benedict

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Bob Geldof

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

Wiz Khalifa

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Anna Nicole Smith

My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

Stewart Lewis

In any enterprise, your perspiration will be inversely proportional to your preparation.

Scott Sorrell

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Sue Grafton

Your margin is my opportunity.

Jeff Bezos