The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

Kurt Vonnegut

Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

Dan Brown

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Kanye West

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never travel without my sketch book.

Ian Wright

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

Kate Clinton

It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Daisaku Ikeda

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Franklin P. Jones