"Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers."
Khalil Gibran
"Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high."
Kelley Armstrong
"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Why does one ruminate about the past? He is treating his wounded egoism."
Anonymous
"Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor."
Euginia Herlihy
"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."
Francis Bacon
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different."
Eric Newby
"Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye."
Gary K. Wolf
"To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness."
Marie Lu
"We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas."
Mona Caird
"Obedience is less painful than regret."
Christine Caine
"I know lots more old drunks than old doctors."
Joe E. Lewis
"It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
Samuel Johnson
"What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity."
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