Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Etty Hillesum

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

Albert Einstein

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

Cecil B. De Mille

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Claude Debussy

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

?By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.

Steve Maraboli

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

Charlie Sheen

Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.

Apoorve Dubey

Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

Alison Sweeney

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Oliver Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone