It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.

There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.

Joel Silver

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Source Unknown

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Washington Irving

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Theodore Roosevelt

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

Christina Ricci

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Beverly Sills

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Edmond de Goncourt

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

Isabel Allende

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

Kary Mullis

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

John Green

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...

Orison Swett Marden

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

Neil Gaiman