I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

It's the seed of life we carry about with us like our skeletons, each one of us unconsciously pregnant with desirable villa residences. There's no escape. As individuals we simply do not exist. We are just potential home builders, beavers, and ants. How do we come into being? What is birth?

Evelyn Waugh

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.

John Sununu

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

Les Brown

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

John Neal

Hell, he said. Just when it was getting interesting, too. And he leaped into the water after his friend.

Cassandra Clare

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Penelope Wilton

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Pablo Picasso

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Mark Twain

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Madame de Stael

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe