I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.

Richard Hatch

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Russell Baker

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Oscar Wilde

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

Alexis Herman

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Charlie Chaplin

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

David Levithan

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Nicolas Caussin

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Black Elk

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Dean Koontz

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Jodi Picoult

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

Terry Pratchett