Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

William Wordsworth

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Edward de Bono

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Tom Stoppard

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Rona Barrett

What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.

Archibald MacLeish, The Premise

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Ian Mcewan

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens

Science fiction is also a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present.

Ray Bradbury

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

Norman Cousins