Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Buddha

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

Wallace Stevens

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Joseph Addison

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Greg Kinnear

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Keith Miller

As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

Julie Burchill

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Jeremy London

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard