To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Olive Schreiner

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

J. Z. Young

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

Alexander Payne

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

Jon Meacham

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

John Updike

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Friedrich von Schiller

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Leon R. Yankwich

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold

William Shakespeare

It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.

Alex Meraz

The trap had a ghastly perfection

Stephen King

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Sydney Smith

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Ashley Montagu