I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...

Markus Zusak

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Clare Boothe Luce

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

Candice Bergen

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

Alexander the Great

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

Peter Steele

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Brian Aldiss

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

Robert Nelson

One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.

Jewish Folk Saying

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And I love you so The people ask me how How I've lived till now I tell them I don't know. I guess they understand How lonely life has been But life began again The day you took my hand.

Don McLean

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Sally Ride