"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valéry
"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."
Pauline Kael
"Light is the magician of the cosmos."
Bruce Watson
"Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read."
John Connolly
"Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousnessknew how to smile."
Alexis Hall
"The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?"
Brion Gysin
"But centuries of time have not made me insensitive."
Christopher Pike
"You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin."
David Eddings
"A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master."
Robert Ferrigno
"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British which amazes Americans who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."
Paul Gallico
"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
Leon Trotsky
"Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them."
Margaret Mitchell
"It's bad to be unable to stand solitude."
Leo Tolstoy
"Learn to read and a whole new world will open up to you."
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