Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Living the dream.

Tom Giaquinto

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

Walter Knott

James Ross Clemens, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness; the report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

W. C. Gannett

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Kathy Najimy

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Alveda King

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

Elisha Cuthbert

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

David Blaine

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E. P. Thompson

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

William Gurnall

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Louis Kronenberger

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher