I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it.

Oscar Wilde

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Kate DiCamillo

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

John Green

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Rabindranath Tagore

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Edward Tufte

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Tim Heidecker

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it

Mark Twain

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Lord Chesterfield

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail