Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

David Duchovny

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Wislawa Szymborska

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

Grant Morrison

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Mariska Hargitay

I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

Bible

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

Paul Ryan

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

Lucy Powell

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Warren Buffett

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Joey Adams

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

John Stuart Mill