As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

H. P. Lovecraft

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

Maya Angelou

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thomas Carlyle

... And God, who studies each separate soul,

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

Abraham Lincoln

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

Mariska Hargitay

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

Source Unknown

I'm a typical guy. Driving cars and speed are really fun.

Luke Mably

Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.

Thomas Frank