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.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

John Barton

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Robert Fanney

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.

Johnny Rotten

Deal with him, Hemingway!

James Joyce

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews.

Simon Wiesenthal

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Joe Falcon

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

Louie Schwartzberg

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

William Cowper

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Dorothy Parker

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Milan Kundera