Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and loss is too empty to share...

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor

I don't like being in houses alone.

Martin Scorsese

I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!

Matthew Maher

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.

Augusten Burroughs

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

Douglas Coupland

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Barbara Bush

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

Lisa Genova

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

Henry Clay

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

Edward Fitzgerald

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Gerald Stanley Lee

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

William Gibson