I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

Philippe Sollers

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

George J. Mitchell

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.It never is, sir.Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

Neil Gaiman

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

Rob Sheffield

I have the most amazing support network around me.

Jenny Frost

Life is not life at all without delight.

Coventry Patmore

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Good wine is a necessity of life for me.

Thomas Jefferson

It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.

Jerry Brown