He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Aldous Huxley

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Lorrie Moore

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Tom Hanks

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying

Thomas Henry Huxley

Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

Sebastian Junger

How red the rose that is the soldier

Wallace Stevens

To give style to one's character -- a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.

Rodney Dangerfield

If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

Source Unknown

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Agatha Christie

Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.

Alice Walker