My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Merlin's pants!

J.K. Rowling

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Samuel Beckett

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Mae West

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emile M. Cioran

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Natsuki Takaya

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

Ken Jennings

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Washington Irving

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Albert Einstein

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet.

Edwin Moses

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

Martin Sheen