It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Samuel Butler

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

J. K. Rowling

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

Ally Condie

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

Albert Einstein

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

Frederik Pohl

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Jim Rohn

I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.

Heidi Julavits

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Michael Crichton

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Bern Williams

The first step toward greatness is to be honest.

Proverb

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

William Shakespeare