I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

J. C. Hare

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Steve Albini

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Lester Bangs

I'm not going to allow myself to second-guess projects. I'm just going to do the ones that I fully love and believe in - that's a real privilege.

Joel Edgerton

No one chooses to raise children alone.

Erykah Badu

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Carroll O'Connor

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.

Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

Barbara Kingsolver

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Peter Davison

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus