When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Dan Simmons

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Tommy Chong

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Dee Dee Myers

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Leigh Steinberg

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Source Unknown

But things work out, you know? Even if it doesn't feel okay for a long time, or even if it feels lke things will never be okay again, everything works out in the end.

Lauren Morrill

Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Blaise Pascal

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death

William Shakespeare

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Michael Cunningham

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

Paul Kane