Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Alex Haley

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

Orlando Bloom

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William Saroyan

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Raoul Vaneigem

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

Calvin Klein

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

Aesop

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

John D. MacDonald

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Brad Meltzer

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Jodi Picoult

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

Jack Kerouac

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde