I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

You're not gay, are you?If I were, I would dress better.

Cassandra Clare

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Anthony Burgess

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Courteney Cox

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

H. P. Lovecraft

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

Debra Winger

My government will respect the will of the people.

Mwai Kibaki

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Colin Hay

The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her sunshyny face / To tell, were as to strive against the streame.

Edmund Spenser

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Plato