The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Neil Gaiman

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

A.E. Housman

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.

William Trogdon

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Susan Orlean

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Dennis Kucinich

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

Michael Haneke

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Thomas J. Peters

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Francois Sagon

I love you. And I don't want to lose you.

Cassandra Clare