Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

Phil Mickelson

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

Ivana Trump

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Laurence J. Peter

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

Lewis Thomas

How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Jennifer Salaiz

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Paul Theroux

I just want to do cool stuff.

Rob Corddry

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Vladimir Kramnik

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

David Dinkins