?There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book. ?

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Sir John Vanbrugh

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Vinoba Bhave

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

Eric Morecambe

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

Jean Dubuffet

In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

Solomon Ortiz

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Elbert Hubbard

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.

John Frankenheimer