It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

John Green

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Ellen Barkin

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

Rowan D. Williams

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Italo Calvino

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?

Gerard Way

Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.

Andrew Lincoln

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

William Butler Yeats

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

G. K. Chesterton

I always find beauty in things that are odd

Marc Jacobs