Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Ezra Pound

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Benjamin Jowett

The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.

C.S. Lewis

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.

Helena Christensen

I love him dearly. On issues of economics and... family values, there's nobody that I know that's stronger.

John McCain

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

Teresa Palmer

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Sextus Propertius

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Sane is rich and powerful; Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor put in cages.

Hunter S. Thompson

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

William Faulkner

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Kurt Vonnegut