And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.