A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.

Timothy Olyphant

We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth

Sherlock Holmes

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Dorothy Parker

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Orson Pratt

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

James S. Coleman

Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power

Phyllis Rose

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

Margaret Halsey

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Terry Pratchett

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Robert Mapplethorpe

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Anish Kapoor