I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

What's so wrong with feeling sorry for myself? Better that than trying to get other people to feel sorry for me.

Orson Scott Card

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Huston Smith

My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.

William Shakespeare

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Scott Walker

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Ivan Turgenev

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

Sidney Crosby

I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.

Arizona Muse

I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.

Scarlett Johansson

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Giacomo Casanova