My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Douglas Trumbull

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Stephen Vizinczey

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Jack Kerouac

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

Xaviera Hollander

I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

Aaliyah

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

Terry Pratchett

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro T. Agnew

A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.

William Mountford