My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

Sinead O'Connor

My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Ray Bradbury

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Jack Vance

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Marianne Williamson

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

Orson Scott Card

You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Amy Tan

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Cassandra Clare

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride