The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

As a science of the unconscious it is a therapeutic method, in the grand style, a method overarching the individual case. Call this, if you choose, a poet's utopia.

Thomas Mann

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Chet Raymo

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect

Blaise Pascal

I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.

Edith Cavell

It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.

Alice Walker

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.

Milan Kundera

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.

Ray Davis

For love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Dale Earnhardt