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.

I'm the kind of person you want to kill. I had an incredibly happy childhood. I married a terrific guy when I was 23. I have great, well-adjusted kids. Sometimes my husband and I look at each other and do a little jig in the kitchen. This is the best life.

Jodi Picoult

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Alan Watts

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Willie Nelson

The only discipline that last is self discipline.

Bum Phillips

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Zina Garrison

The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?

Michael Nutter

Humans! They lived in the world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and anzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...

Terry Pratchett

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.

Thomas Paine

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

David Lloyd George

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Camille Paglia

I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state.

Abraham Lincoln