Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

Quentin Crisp

The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

James Agate

I'm no expert on American politics.

Bjorn Lomborg

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

James H. Douglas, Jr.

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

Graham Norton

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

Henry David Thoreau

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Thomas Mann

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

Isaac Asimov