I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Cormac McCarthy

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.

Benjamin Franklin

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

J. P. Donleavy

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Norman Vincent Peale

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Anna Held

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Rumi

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

Adam Levine