Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

It all depends what you mean by.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.

A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.