Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

George Gurdjieff

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

Paulo Coelho

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

John Wooden

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

Jackson Browne

Love is energy of life.

Robert Browning

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

John Green

That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

Edmond de Goncourt, Journal, Jul

And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.

Sibella Giorello

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

Norman Mailer, (speech given at

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

My health and my family are the core of my being.

Jon Bon Jovi

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.

John Green