You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

A Cosmic Ordering beginning makes a wealthy ending.

Stephen Richards

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Ambrose Bierce

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

O. Henry

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

Joel C. Rosenberg

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

Taylor Momsen

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Jewel

Through the darkest hours of the nightand through the dreamers realm I seek,Far beyond the starry skyand beyond galaxies I am free.Through the grimmest memoriesand past a seasons air I cannot breathe,Far beyond this mortal worldin an afterlife we shall meet.

Lee Argus

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

Richard Henry Pratt