I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Comte DeBussyRabutin

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Thomas Fuller

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Bill Hybels

I'm very romantic.

Carmen Electra

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.

William Shakespeare

Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.

Proverb

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Tolstoy

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintance.

Benjamin Franklin

Experience is a brutal teacher. But you'll learn..my god, you will learn.

C.S. Lewis

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Jose Bergamin