I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Thomas Carlyle

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Fiona Apple

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

Andrew Cuomo

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Pearl Buck, A Bridge for Passing

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.

Cassandra Clare

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswere

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

Graeme Le Saux

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

John Nelson Darby

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Frank Burford