What is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true. Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that collides with their incurable romanticism.

so that it may grow fatter and

Virginia Woolf

Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

Bad excuses are worse than none.

Thomas Fuller

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Vinoba Bhave

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

Abraham Lincoln

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Neil Gaiman

I went down the street to the 24hour grocery. When I gotthere, the guy was locking the front door. I said, Hey, thesign says you're open 24 hours. He said, Yes, but not in arow.

Steven Wright

For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth--about everything. That will teach them

Seth Adam Brown

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Joe Elliott

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

Ernesto Sabato

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Laurie Anderson