While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Brian Eno

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Spike Lee

Money can't buy happiness.

Howard Hughes

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

Bill Vaughan

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Kevin Patterson

Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Many conspiracy theories do both overt and tacit harm. Almost all are insults, intended or unintended, are insults to thousands of hard-working and honest people, and sometimes to entire races, nations, or cultures.

K Lee Lerner

There is more truth about Human Nature in a good Sci-Fi or Epic Fantasy Novel than in any Non-Fiction. When you're speaking for real, you hide what you don't want others to see. When you're telling a story, you don't hold back.

I Curmudgeon Hugh

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money

Mark Twain

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Chinese Proverb

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein