My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Haruki Murakami

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Lorraine Hansberry

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Frank Dane

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

Jane Austen

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.

Sigmund Freud

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,

Cassandra Clare

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Al Goldstein