It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

James Fenton

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Peter Shaffer

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Democritus

...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...

John Geddes

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will.

Ronald Reagan

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was in the rule book. They gave you three warnings. The fourth time you fell below four miles an hour you were...well, you were out of the Walk. But if you had three warnings and could manage to walk for three hours, you were back in the sun again.

Stephen King

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott