The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

Oscar Wilde

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

Lauryn Hill

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

Kelly Cutrone

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Josh Billings

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

William Shakespeare

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

Oswald Spengler

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

Halldór Laxness

It takes a little courage, and a little self -- control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.

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