Writing is a craft not an art.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugene Ionesco

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Robert Musil

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Michael Morpurgo

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Woodrow Wilson

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

Konrad von Gesner

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

Cassandra Clare

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

Dan Lipinski

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Euripides

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Thomas Fuller