Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Jim Beggs

I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.

Samuel Johnson

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J.D. Salinger

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Paul Theroux

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

Anna Held

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Terry Pratchett

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Frank Dane

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Vince Lombardi

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

George R.R. Martin

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Logan Pearsall Smith