A work of art makes a great impression on us only when it gives us something which, even with all the efforts of our intellect, we cannot understand completely.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

Source Unknown

We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.

Darius Rucker

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.

Emo Philips

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Bill Gates

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

Kenneth R. Miller

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

Proverb

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

Georges Bernanos

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

Isaac Mizrahi

We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.

George Bush

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?

Cecily von Ziegesar