I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

Garth Stein

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

Richard Harris

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Molly Ivins

My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.

Sherri Shepherd

I spy with my little eye a great story.

John Green

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Francis Picabia

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Irving Babbitt

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Henry David Thoreau

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

Hans Blix