I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Kyra Sedgwick

Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.

Julia Woodruff

I leave before being left. I decide.

Brigitte Bardot

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Emma Bonino

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Woodrow Wilson

Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear.Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory.But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Paulo Coelho

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann von Goethe

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.

Blaise Pascal