Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the Ri

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

William Shakespeare

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

Nicholson Baker

All stories are love stories.

Robert McLiam Wilson

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Christopher Hitchens

Scared, Angel?

Becca Fitzpatrick

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.

Proverb

If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.

Antonio Banderas

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Neil Gaiman

Without your love It's a honky-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phony as it can be But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me.

Yip Harburg

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Sinclair Lewis

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

David Bailey