Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can

Lenny Bruce

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Jan Karon

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially.

George Moore

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

English Proverb

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

Sam Shepard

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

Rollo May

Those who can command themselves command others.

William Hazlitt

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Mary Wesley