Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Thornton Wilder

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Marya Mannes

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

Michael Hutchence

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Henry David Thoreau

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

Jodi Picoult

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it.

Charles Dickens

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Jane Austen

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Anna Deavere Smith