I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Mark Twain

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

George Bernard Shaw

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

Sir William Temple

No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

Little Richard

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

Temple Grandin

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

Norman Parkinson

The wisest reason takes as her own principles those which the imagination of man has everywhere rashly introduced.

Blaise Pascal

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

John W. Gardner