So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Ayn Rand

When you're through changing, you're through.

Bruce Barton

Fear controls you.

Jack Kevorkian

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Barry Goldwater

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

William Barclay

Sometimes it takes falling apart to ever have a chance of being fully whole.

Amanda Rose

There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathlessrapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, likethe enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one belovedsinging to you alone.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

Samantha Morton