If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

A good book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is natures way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

We recognized early on that media consumption was evolving and customers were looking for moving images to include as part of their advertising campaigns, website designs and corporate presentations.

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

The one who loves you will make you weep.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

Once again we come to the Holiday Season a deeply religious time that each of us observes in his own way by going to the mall of his choice.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

The druidical claims for Stonehenge seem to belong to that bonkers-but-persistent strand of Englishness that believes there is something particularly mystical about the English themselves, who were clearly a chosen people.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.