Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

Mason Cooley

'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.

Albert Camus

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

William Hazlitt

Everything you go through grows you.

Robert Tew

Come in, Adam, and rest; it has been a hard day for thee.

George Eliot

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Thomas Moore

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Eugene Ionesco

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Colin Bateman

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Carol Oates