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.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Mitch Albom

If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left.

Source Unknown

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andre Dubus, Broken Vessels, 199

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Byron Dorgan

have poets write about you as if you are alive. Scientifically, it is absolutely true, you are alive. You have a pulse, the waves, and a metabolism, the food chain. A personality, a character, a consciousness, and a sense of purposetry this- turn into spray, spin rainbowswear down entire mountains and dump them in layersgently surround marina sea grass twice a day, protecting and feeding thousands of crabs, ducks, and geesefill human eyes with warm salt brine at least once a month Becoming Water

Susan Zwinger

Lawrence had done it in a way, and Joyce. But I think it's an important thing to do now and then, to describe the sex act as our descent, or adventure, into a primordial or strange world, having very little to do with how we look in suits or what our educations have been. It's a well of darkness, as it were, that leaves you refreshed.

John Updike, (on the topic of wr

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

Terry Pratchett

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

Dakota Fanning

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

Pittacus Lore

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Natan Sharansky

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Socrates