You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Scott Adams

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.

Mohammad

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Walter Lippman

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Mariano Azuela

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

George Eliot

It is the theory that decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

Mortimer Adler

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman

Only with winter-patience can we bringThe deep desired, long-awaited spring.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Bruce Springsteen

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

Chris Evans