It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Thomas Fuller

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

Lalla Ward

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

Francesca Lia Block

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Hunter S. Thompson

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers

Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.

Richard Dean Anderson

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Fred Upton

A change is as good as a rest.

Stephen King

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

George Eliot