When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

Kevin Costner

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

Steve Maraboli

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Christopher Hampton

I lived at home till I was 29.

Ray Romano

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Edmund Burke

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Jesse Jackson

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

J.K. Rowling

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

Vera Farmiga