It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Stephen King

The only true thing is what's in front of you right now.

Ramona Ausubel

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Henry James

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

Patti Smith

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver

It's a very good historical book about history.

Dan Quayle

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.

Michael Fassbender

We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.

Buddy Wakefield

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Cesare Pavese

If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

Albert A. Grant