God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Cyril Connolly

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

Oscar Wilde

My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.

Lucy Alibar

Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising. So still was the bird - wings, tail, head - it might have been a museum specimen. Then, as if atop the wind, it slid down the ridge, tilted a few times, veered, tacked up the hill, its wings hardly shifting. I though, if I could be that hawk for one hour I'd never again be just a man.

William Least Heat Moon

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

Mary Balogh

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

Nancy Horan

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Stephen King

My life has been one long descent into respectability.

Mandy RiceDavies

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

David Gerrold

We live in deeds

Philip James Bailey

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Taylor Swift

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.