My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

C.S. Lewis

The world is a contradiction, the universe a paradox.

Kedar Joshi

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

A starving man will eat with the wolf.

American Indian Proverb, Oklahom

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.

Andrei Tarkovsky

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

Barbara Ehrenreich

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Martha Graham

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.

Tim O'Brien

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.

Paulo Coelho

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Agnetha Faltskog

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card