Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

You must be a prophet right enough, said Alvin Junior, cause I can't understand a thing you said.

Orson Scott Card

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

John W. Foster

You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.

Virginia Woolf

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

James Laughlin

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.

Plato

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Robert Owen

Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me? Vampire mojo strikes again.

Cassandra Clare

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Leo Buscaglia

He that can work is born to be king of something.

Thomas Carlyle

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe