I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

George Bernard Shaw

Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

William Faulkner

Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not.

Terry Pratchett

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friendswent to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Dario Argento

You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer

Ernest Hemingway

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

Marilyn Manson

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

William Cowper

A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end.

Aristotle

Pearls mean tears.

Doris Lessing

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Marissa Mayer

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Joyce Cary