My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

L. Ron Hubbard

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable

Plato

Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, ... a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world.

Frederick Salomon Perls

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Al Capp

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

Susan Orlean

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

Arabella Weir

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Jane Austen

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

George Washington

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

John Steinbeck

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Francis Bacon

The soul is healed by being with children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky