If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

Philip K. Dick

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Bruce Springsteen

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Erma Bombeck

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

Deborah Harkness

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Susan Orlean

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Warren Beatty

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

Drew Carey

Someday we'll find it. The Rainbow Connection. The lovers, the dreamers, and me.

Jim Henson

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Warren Buffett

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Edith Mendel Stern

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan;The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things.Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme,Empty darkness under the death-tent wings.She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood,Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

Robinson Jeffers

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

Walter Lippmann