All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

Janine di Giovanni

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.

Florence King

It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution

George Eliot

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

Bruce Boxleitner

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Andrew Young

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

John Kricfalusi

Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

George Fabricius

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

George Orwell

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

Joe Baca

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

Anita Brookner

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Joan Rivers