I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, HeroW

I want to be all used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

Alison Bechdel

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

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Daft Punk

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

Frederick II

All progress is experimental.

John Jay Chapman

Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

Terry Pratchett

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Paul Lynde

It's vital the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.

Princess of Wales Diana

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

Orson Scott Card

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Mark Mothersbaugh