I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Georg Solti

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Bobby Flay

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

Anita Diament

Hearts are breakable, but even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

Cassandra Clare

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Johann von Goethe

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

Sheryl Sandberg

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Jeff Bridges

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Willem de Kooning