I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

Marquis de Sade

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not.

Coco J. Ginger

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Elie Wiesel

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher Von Braun

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Jane Pauley

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

Cal Le Mon

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Germaine Greer

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Mick Jagger

God has ALREADY given you the strength you need, it's up to you to recognize that you were BORN a conqueror!

Yvonne Pierre

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.

Charles Dickens