I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.

Gene Barry

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Anon.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.

Anton Chekhov

She was so fat that she has a dress with a sign on the back that says caution wide load

Rodney Dangerfield

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

Frederik Pohl

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Eric Hoffer

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Charles Franklin Kettering

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Salma Hayek

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Van Morrison