Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Stephen King

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Eva Green

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Clare Boothe Luce, "Newsweek", J

Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.

John Hersey

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Paul De Man

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Edward W. Howe

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Orson Welles

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force

Mahatma Gandhi

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Henry Ward Beecher

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Billie Joe Armstrong