My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

Greg Curtis

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Robyn Davidson

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

Lord Byron

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Jim Rohn

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.

Matthew Rhys

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no more To thee, God's daughter, powerful as God, It is that thou hast made my life too sweet To hold the added sweetness of a song. There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

Sara Teasdale

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Fred Allen

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Robert Morgan

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Virginia Woolf

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

C.S. Lewis