True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

Ernest Shackleton

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Susan Sontag

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

Marcus Aurelius

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

William Congreve

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

Justin Bieber

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Stephen King

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Henry David Thoreau

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Elvis Presley

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.

C.S. Lewis

Have the courage of your desire.

George Robert Gissing