When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Ambrose Bierce

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

love is a hawk with velvet clawslove is a rock with heart and veinslove is a lion with satin jawslove is a storm with silken reins

Kurt Vonnegut

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

Language is fossil Poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Joss Stone

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

John Green

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

Virginia Woolf

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

Billy Corgan

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Omar Khayyam

The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors the metronome to which he beat [was she].

Coco J. Ginger

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . . Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Se