Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

Mark Twain

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

Aldous Huxley

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Walt Disney

A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

Samuel Johnson

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Jack Kerouac

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

Sally Hawkins

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Herbert N. Casson

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

Bertrand Russell

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Tommy Chong

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus