Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.

For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Thomas Carlyle

Only fools are positive.

Moe Howard

A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.

Ruthie Stein

Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.

Francesca Annis

It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.

Emily Procter

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

Peter Agre

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Manny Pacquiao

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

Harry Reid

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

In married life, three is company, and two is none.

Oscar Wilde