I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Dalai Lama XIV

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

Jim Davis

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

William Shakespeare

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

David Guterson

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

Brian Andreas

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Adam Osborne

They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

Henry David Thoreau

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Louis Kahn