The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.

He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Anything would deserve a sequel if the right elements are there.

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.