The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination.

Ambrose Bierce

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Ernest Hemingway

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Logan Pearsall Smith

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

A. J. Jacobs

Avarice is always poor

Samuel Johnson

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allan Poe

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

Jack Wagner

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

David Baldacci

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

Russell Lynes

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

Andrew Shue