There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Gary Larson

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Sergio Aragones

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Stella McCartney

In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

Eternity -- waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Jeremy Taylor

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Baltasar Gracian

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

Diane Wakoski

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

Matt Ridley

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

Paulo Coelho

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Stephen King