The faith I was born into formed me.

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

Henning Mankell

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Shay Mitchell

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Aldous Huxley

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

Eamon de Valera

Pearls mean tears.

Doris Lessing

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Alexander Pope

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.

Samuel Johnson