Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

The other day I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

Steven Wright

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Joan Didion

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nestell Bovee

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

Valerie Frankel

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

Florence Scovel Shinn

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylor

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Catherine Deneuve

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

Philip Johnson