I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Simon Raven

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.

Toba Beta

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

Proverb

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Martin Luther

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Terri Windling

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Marshall McLuhan

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Samuel Beckett

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Marla Maples

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

Young-ha Kim