Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn't coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.

Neil Gaiman

The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Source Unknown

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

George Dennison Prentice

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Arthur Erickson

It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.

Katherine Mansfield

I am a feather for each wind that blows

William Shakespeare

I hadn't been practicing or playing or anything. But that had been a vital part of my life.

Joseph Jarman

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Heraclitus

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.

Abraham Lincoln

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Stephen King

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Annie Dillard

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith