I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

James Weldon Johnson

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

Candace Bushnell

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Janis Ian

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Paul Valery

Love is our home

house of romance

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Howard Crosby

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

Robert Gibbs

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

Jonathan Safran Foer