The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Thornton Wilder

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

Horace Greeley

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Green

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Diablo Cody

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

Amy Plum

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Joseph Addison

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire

His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

Terry Pratchett

I could never love where I could not respect

Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse