If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

Kristin Cavallari

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

H. G. Bissinger

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

C.S. Lewis

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

John Ruskin

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Jim Allchin

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

C.S. Lewis

The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.

Mark Twain

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

Kristen Stewart

Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along.

Jodi Picoult