Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful -- of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Jeffrey Eugenides

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Oscar Wilde

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Rush Limbaugh

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Robert Jensen

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Donald Cargill

Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people.

Gerhard Kocher

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Twyla Tharp

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Frank Leahy

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Leonardo DaVinci

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de la Bruyere