The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Tommy Lasorda

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Donald Curtis

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Neal Shusterman

To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause; there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much more out of the sense that our reality unfailingly lacks.

Jaf Liethers

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

Ken Salazar

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Joey Adams

Pop music will never be low brow.

Lady Gaga

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Natalie Wood

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Elvis Presley