I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

Martin Luther

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

Peter O'Toole

LORD GORING: My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, A

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

William Shakespeare

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

G.K. Chesterton

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Oliver North

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Sigmund Freud

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

John Sununu