I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Stephen King

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

William Shakespeare

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

Sean Lennon

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Bob Dylan

Well, then I'll die.' Sooner than other people, obviously. But everybody knows that life isn't worth living. And when it came down to it, I wasn't unaware of the fact that it doesn't matter very much whether you die at thirty or at seventy since, in either case, other men and women will naturally go on living, for thousands of years even. Nothing was plainer, in fact. It was still only me who was dying, whether it was now or in twenty years' time.

Albert Camus

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

David Alan Grier

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Philip Henry

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

Kami Garcia

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Richard Burton

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

David Benioff

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

Barbara Jordan