I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Patricia Highsmith

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him with their life style. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.band: dc Talk; album: Jesus Freak; used in the prelude to the song What If I Stumble?

Brennan Manning

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Mickey Spillane

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Virginia Woolf

The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.

Neal Stephenson

Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse

Benjamin Franklin

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Leon Battista Alberti

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

Aleksandar Hemon

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Acton

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Horton Cooley

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

Terry Goodkind

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Scottish Proverb