I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

Honore de Balzac

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

David Hockney

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Pir Vilayat Khan

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

John Buchan

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

Sir John Chadwick

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Alexander Theroux

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

Jason Aldean

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. Psalms 18:29

Bible

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Victor Hugo

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Neil Gaiman