The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

Haruki Murakami

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

David Hare

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

Karen Thompson Walker

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

The games we play are lessons we learn. He assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Terry Pratchett

Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

M. F. Husain

I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it. And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in careless moment we breathe in somebody's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest- health integrity purity if you like - is a product of the human will of vigilance that must never falter. The good man the man who infects hardly anyone is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention. And it needs tremendous will-power a never ending tension of the mind to avoid such lapses. Yes Rieux it's a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world today looks so tired everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is also why some of us who want to get the plague out of their systems feel such desperate weariness a weariness from which nothing remains to set us free except death.

Albert Camus

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

Jane Fonda

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Rosemarie DeWitt

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

J.K. Rowling

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dean Kamen

The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare