It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Susan Sontag

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Orson Scott Card

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Gaston Bachelard

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Cynthia Rowley

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Henry Rollins

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Robert Morgan

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John W. Gardner

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Position, I

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

Scott Thompson

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

Cassandra Clare

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

George Eliot