The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Blaise Pascal

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Angela Carter

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

Steve Jobs

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.

Mark Wahlberg

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

Murray Gell-Mann

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

Virginia Woolf

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

Edmund Morrison