It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.

Nelson Demille

Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.

François Rabelais

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Teresa of Avila

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Ovid

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

Kylie Bax

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

Kurt Vonnegut

Willful waste brings woeful want.

Thomas Fuller