I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

Patrick Rothfuss

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Jackie Chan

Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.

Edward Fox

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Bill Watterson

All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

C.S. Lewis, Letters

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Corrie Ten Boom

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises; and oft it hitsWhere hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

William Shakespeare, All's Well

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Count Basie

One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.

James Hagerty

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Terry Pratchett

His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.

Oliver St. John Gogarty