I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

Arundhati Roy

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Dave Chappelle

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

William Feather

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

Salma Hayek

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

if there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God

Saint Augustine

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

David Hare

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Miguel de Cervantes

The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea

John Updike, On London, in, "New

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

Ina Garten

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron