I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry.

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Jodi Picoult

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving

William Shakespeare

Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams.

Dexter Yager

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Andrew Bird

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Gustave Flaubert

It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individuals...

Leo Tolstoy

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

William Greider

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Daniel Radcliffe

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.

Thomas More

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.

John Oldham, Satire upon a Print