As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Lady Gaga

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Blanche Lincoln

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Samuel Johnson

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Madeleine L'Engle

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Henry Drummond

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

There's nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister.

Tia Mowry

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Michael Sinz

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said

Steven Wright

However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Jane Austen