It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Stephen King

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Walter Benjamin

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

Jodi Picoult

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Henry Miller

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.

Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

Cheryl Strayed

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

Gary Oldman

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Hillary Clinton

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Julia Sweeney

There is no treasure like the human heart.

Jocelyn Murray

The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

William Ralph Inge