What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

William J. O'Neil

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Richard Brautigan

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

Bible

...governments don't produce economic growth people do.

Ronald Reagan

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Edsger Dijkstra

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking - and looking.

Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we

Sharon Salzberg, The Power of In

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Publilius Syrus

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud