I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.

LeAnn Rimes

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men.

Socrates

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Howard Zinn

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Source Unknown

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Helen Keller

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Marilyn French

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Francis Jeffrey

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Ruckett