Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

David Knopfler

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Stanislav Grof

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Christopher Hampton

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.

William Shakespeare

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Maggie Stiefvater

I could prove God statistically.

George Gallup

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Joe Garagiola