The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

John Lancaster Spalding

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

We are what we believe we are.

C.S. Lewis

Dear Alec and Magnus,How are you? Everything's just fine here. Thanks for you postcard with the picture of the Taj Mahal. It looks nice. Disregard my last few postcards. I see I overdid it. To make it up to you, I'm going to redecorate Magnus's loft for free. -Izzy

Cassandra Clare

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

Raymond Chandler

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

Ace Frehley

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

Dorothy Day

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Ann Landers

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

Robert Conrad

Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My nightmares are mostly about losing you. Then I wake up to find you're still with me.

Suzanne Collins