A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

Rather be dead than cool.

Kurt Cobain

Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.

Richard Lovelace

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

Kim Kardashian

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Mark Haddon

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

Rupert Everett

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

John Guare

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

Jello Biafra

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

Mark Twain

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

William Shakespeare