If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.

People who never get carried away should be.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Jerry Garcia

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

E. L. Doctorow

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Mae West

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Bergen Evans

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.

Shawn Klomparens

But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.

Ben Affleck

Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

Source Unknown

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Rita Mae Brown

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Anita Desai

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Travis Tritt