For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

Wallace Stevens

Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?A: I never made a calculationQ: What do you think?A: I do not think about things I don't think about.Q: Do you think about things you do think about?A: Well, sometimes.

Scopes Trial

I didn't know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

Patricia A. McKillip

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

William Beebe

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Isak Dinesen

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

David Sedaris

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Paulo Coelho

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

John Locke

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Christiane Amanpour

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

E.E. Cummings

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.