I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Kathryn Stockett

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.

Wallace Stevens

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called

Carl Sagan

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Robert Collier

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

John Mica

Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

John Gay

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Kahlil Gibran

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Jodi Picoult

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Steve Jobs

The promise had not failed her.... She had won everything from life, for she had given the world a master. Words seemed to speak themselves in her ear... Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

John Buchan

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

Alexander Pope

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Alexander Payne