I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

Charles de Lint

Obscurity brings safety.

Aesop

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Mark Twain

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

Terry Pratchett

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Lance Armstrong

You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.

Jerome Bruner

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

Carol Ann Duffy

If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.

Amy Grant

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Minnie Pearl

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

Doug Coupland