Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).

Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.

A writer sets up his own amazing experiment: his work of fiction.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

If you see violence, condemn it.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

They saw their injured country's woe.

Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.