After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Dennis Prager

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

Laura Schlessinger

Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives.

Isabel Norton

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Neil Gaiman

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Lenny Bruce

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Al McGuire

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Johnny Depp

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Isobelle Carmody

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

J.K. Rowling

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Matthew Vaughn

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge