But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was dong in the reader's heart?

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Douglas Adams

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Joe Paterno

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

George Eliot

The truth is so often disappointing, or ugly; don't you find that, ?

Laurell K Hamilton

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Juvenal

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

Dan Lipinski

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Hugh Laurie

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

We mean by politics the people's business -- the most important business there is.

Adlai Stevenson

A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.

Fred Estabrook

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Vaclav Havel