I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

Source Unknown

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

John Green

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Mark Haddon

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

John Erskine

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Iain Banks

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Gianfranco Ferre

Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Aleister Crowley

Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

B. C. Forbes

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Thucydides