A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat...the pulse that sustained his universe.

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Buddha

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Lev Grossman

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Barbara Corcoran

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

J. G. Ballard, Interview: Books

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Paul Merton

Procrastination is the thief of time.note: this line also appears in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.

Edward Young, Night Thoughts. (i

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Cassandra Clare

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude LeviStrauss

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

Thomas Szasz