True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Terry Pratchett

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Neil Young

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

W. Somerset Maugham

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

John Polkinghorne

My friends and I played a new version of Russian roulette. We passed around six girls and one of them had VD.

Rodney Dangerfield

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbir

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

Craig T. Nelson

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

William Bligh

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Wayne Dyer