I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.

Philip Roth

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Lindsey Buckingham

The Church of Rome ... has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death and hell; so that not even antichrist ,if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

Michel de Montaigne

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Fran Lebowitz

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Dejan Stojanovic

In economics the majority is always wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Anne Hathaway

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe