I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Woody Allen

The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

Stephen King

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Chuck Palahniuk

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Nolan Ryan

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Fred Frith

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Gwen Ifill

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.

Aaron Stanford

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

James Baldwin

Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned.

Heinrich Heine

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Arabic Proverb