Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Twyla Tharp

I know how to use a fellytone now.

J.K. Rowling

I'm a travel enthusiast.

Iggy Pop

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

Rumi

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

R.A. Salvatore

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Peter McWilliams

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

Gustave Flaubert

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon