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 this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

Noam Chomsky

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul II

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.

Jane Austen

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Jim Samuels

Find a voice in a whisper.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

Dave Chappelle

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

John Green

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Richard Powers

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

William Carlos Williams