Books are to me as homemade tattoos are to an inmate. Can't get enough of them.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

Jodi Picoult

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Edward W. Howe

A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.

Fredrich

Trying is always enough.

Patricia Briggs

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

Ambrose Bierce

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Stephen King

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Sebastian Junger

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

David Attenborough