Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

My music is fun, kind of cheeky.

Kesha

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. It's possible to achieve a state where you realize the truth of life and fear disappears, and a lot of people have reached that state, but next to none of them are on Earth. There's probably a few.

David Lynch

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

Jenny Shipley

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Serena Williams

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Barry Jones

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed;

Samuel Johnson

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

Simon Newcomb

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

Plautus

Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

Jane Austen

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Todd Gitlin

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce