Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

George Eliot

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

Tim Cahill

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.

Ang Lee

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Mick Jagger

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because there were giants standing on my shoulders.

Harold Abelson

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.

Will Rogers

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.

J.R.R. Tolkien

She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.

Cassandra Clare

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Denis Diderot

Christians are called saints, for their holiness; believers, for their faith; brethern, for their love; disciples, for their knowledge.

Richard Fuller

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey