I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Malcolm Bradbury

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Edmond de Goncourt

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Will Rogers

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

George Weinberg

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

Kim Cattrall

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

Edith Wharton

If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Source Unknown

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Haruki Murakami

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Upton Sinclair

Be positive and laugh at everything.

Alexandra Roach