And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

W. E. B. Du Bois

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Roger Ascham

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

Cassandra Clare

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

J. M. Synge

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Annie Lennox

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Maurice Sendak

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Edmund White

I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.

Eva Herzigova

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

Snoop Dogg

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

James Buchan

In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

Frantz Fanon