An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!

Terry Pratchett

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.

Carl Sandburg

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Orson Scott Card

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

Carly Fiorina

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

Josh Brolin

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

Mindy Kaling

I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.

Francesca Lia Block

He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded.

Victor Hugo

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

Ben Stiller