I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Napoleon Hill

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de la Bruyere

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption

Samuel Johnson

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.

Christopher Morley

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Gene Simmons

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Harper Lee

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

Ovid

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Ernest Gaines

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Kahlil Gibran

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Robert Morgan