I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

Carol Ann Duffy

It's tucked away behind my eyes, where all my f*cked up thoughts can hide, 'cause God forbid I hurt somebody...

Tim Minchin

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

George Soros

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

Chinese Proverb

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

Jon Hamm

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Rudyard Kipling

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Groucho Marx

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

General Douglas MacArthur, In hi

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Edward F. Halifax

Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

Leo Szilard