Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Anything worthy is worth the fight!

Besa Kosova

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Charles Dickens

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Margaret Thatcher

when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Mike Tyson

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,

Grantland Rice

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

Carre Otis

I do a lot of writing about my family.

Katey Sagal

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Bruce Schneier

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge