The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

Kevin Smith

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

Samuel Johnson

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

George Eliot

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Bruce Springsteen

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Harry S. Truman

Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?

George Eliot

Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'

John Podhoretz

Let our children be taught love love love.

Daniel H. Hill

All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Tallulah Bankhead

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

Jonathan Sacks