The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

Ian Mcewan

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

Loretta Lynn

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Khalil Gibran

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Italian Proverb

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,That, when a soul is found sincerely so,A thousand liveried angels lacky her,Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

John Milton, Comus

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

George Bernard Shaw

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

William Shakespeare

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

Eli Pariser

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves

George Bernard Shaw