There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Doug Coupland

It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.

Debbi Peterson

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

John Green

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Blaise Pascal

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Brenda Ueland

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

John A. Hannah

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Norman Rockwell

History takes time. History makes memory.

Gertrude Stein

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

Evelyn Waugh

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A.E. Housman