Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

Shelley Long

A plague a' both your houses

William Shakespeare

The real funny thing is, whether the demons exist or not at all in your life, it's nothing to do whether you believe or not to one, none nor both of them.

Toba Beta

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.

Anne Frank

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Kathryn Bigelow

To give your best is to receive the best.

Raymond Holliwell

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats.

Anne Lamott

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Terry Pratchett

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Henry David Thoreau

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley