It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

Wilson Mizner

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

Rachael Ray

Death is woven in with the violets, said Louis. Death and again death.)

Virginia Woolf

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)haveone. It will not be a pansy heaven ora fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley butit will be a heaven of blackred rosesmy father will be(deep like a rosetall like a rose)standing near myswaying over her(silent)with eyes which are really petals and seenothing with the face of a poet really whichis a flower and not a face withhandswhich whisperThis is my beloved my(suddenly in sunlighthe will bow,and the whole garden will bow)

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

Alexis Ohanian

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Carl Bernstein, In Guardian, (Lo

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Li

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Aldous Huxley

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Eric Kripke

There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.

Hal Borland, An American Year

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne