It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

Neville Cardus

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Stephen King

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

Taylor Phinney

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Greg Egan

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

Earl Warren

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Plato

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

Gary Numan

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Christie Brinkley

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

Jean Ingelow