I am enjoying writing the last book in the series and it's coming along nicely.

Any work of art that makes us feel the artist tried too hard lacks clarity.

Clayton Whitehill

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Orison Swett Marden

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Salman Rushdie

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

Vivien Leigh

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Thomas Carlyle

My father was stupid. He worked in a bank and they caught him stealing pens.

Rodney Dangerfield

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

Thomas J. Watson

No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.

Randolph Churchill