Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Thomas Malthus

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.

Soren Kierkegaard

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Paul Muldoon

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

Rick Baker

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Hosea Ballou

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

Carlo Goldoni

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

Terry Eagleton

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Amelia Earhart

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Richard Russo

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Christopher Marlowe