I don't mind my age.

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

Sally Kirkland

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Virginia Woolf

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight Whitney Morrow

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

William Pitt The Elder Chatham

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Jane Austen

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Victor Kiam

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

Stephen Cambone

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

Saul Bellow

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Orson Scott Card

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

Barbara Delinsky