I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Edward Koch

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Stephen King

Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.

Mary Caroline Richards

O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

John Ousterhout

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Jennifer Beals

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Dominic Chianese

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Michel de Montaigne