I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Eddie Vedder

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

Charles Kuralt

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

Elton John

Don't think you are wiser, everyone has his/her fool part

Adekunle Adeyemi

Envious because I have a heart, Gluttonous because I have a heart, Greedy because I have a heart, Prideful because I have a heart, Slothful because I have a heart, Wrathful because I have a heart, Because I have a heart, I lust for all that you are.

Tite Kubo

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Thomas Reid

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

David Kay

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Hans Christian Andersen

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth.

Henry David Thoreau

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window.

Cassandra Clare