High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Charles Montesquieu

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

Bertrand Russell

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Oliver North

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

Fiction does something unique in that it takes us out of our heads and puts us into other people's heads. And I think reading, and experiencing fiction through reading, is something that gives us empathy. And that, I think, is vital. It takes us out of our lives. Without reading, you're stuck with one life. Reading gives you more than one life. It gives you an infinite number of lives, which I think is wonderful. Or at least, not infinite, but as many as there are books on the shelves.

Neil Gaiman

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Henry Miller

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

Ernest Hemingway

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.

Portia de Rossi

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

Mark Harmon

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.

Alex Flinn