July 4th is the 5th.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.

Jodi Picoult

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

Let the tent be struck.

General Robert E. Lee

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

William Scranton

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

George Bernard Shaw

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

V. S. Naipaul

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Max Stirner

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

W. Somerset Maugham

I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.

Joel Coen