Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Karen Thompson Walker

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

Ellen Hopkins

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Jeanette Winterson

Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.

Eugene J. Martin

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James A. Baldwin

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

Bruce Cockburn

It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters.

Victor Hugo

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

God's dream is interwoven into reality by humans.

Santosh Kalwar

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Arabic Proverb

I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.

Patti Stanger

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Henry Rollins