I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of crating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

Robert Jordan

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

Lacey Chabert

But for every price, and every penence that I could think ofIt's better too have fallen in love, then never to have fallen at all

Dar Williams

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

Conrad Black

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Drew Carey

I got my own back.

Maya Angelou

How many are the things I can do without!

Socrates

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Will Rogers

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.

Eric Hoffer

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

Miguel de Unamuno