It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Edward Abbey

I pretended to be an open book, but I was closed off and conceited.

Coco J. Ginger

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

Robin Hayes

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Marquis de Sade

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr

The (Christian) doctrines are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

C.S. Lewis

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

Iain Banks

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Mark Twain

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

George Bancroft

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Bernard Baruch