Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

English Proverb

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Orson Scott Card

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Samuel Butler

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

Charlie Kaufman

So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness of information to most people, except as entertainment. If facts weren't funny or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Kurt Vonnegut

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Albert Einstein

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Tom Wolfe

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

Christopher Hitchens

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Wilson Mizner

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

Diablo Cody