I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Heinrich Suso

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Bobby Fischer

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Johann G. Fichte

It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.

Tina Weymouth

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nelson Algren

A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved in a physical object for all time, and changing the lives of all those who come in contact with it.

Cheryl B. Klein

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Albert Einstein

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

J. K. Rowling

Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

David Levithan

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Matthew Broderick

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

Dan Auerbach