Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

But Susan's thoughts were far removed from the political implications of Digital Fortress. She was still struggling to comprehend its existence. She'd spent her life breaking codes, firmly denying the existence of the ultimate code. She felt like an atheist coming face to face with God.

Dan Brown

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Umberto Eco, The Island of the D

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn

Man makes holy what he believes.

Ernest Renan

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

Morris Chestnut

This depression was deep, and you don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in.

Will Rogers, December 31, 1933

I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

Patti Stanger

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Alexander Pope

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

Barack Obama

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero