Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

Neil Gaiman

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Bertolt Brecht

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 19

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Lord Darling

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Michelle Malkin

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

Ian Mcewan

There is not love of life without despair about life.

Albert Camus

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Christopher Hitchens

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

Liev Schreiber

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

James Dean