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Laney felt the pills he'd taken, the ones that were supposed to cushion the jet lag, drop out from under him like some kind of rotten pharmacological scaffolding. William Gibson
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first. Billy Wilder
Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year! Ogden Nash
Stephen Fry quote: "In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire."
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire. Stephen Fry
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert. Haruki Murakami
Harper Lee quote: "You see they could never, never understand that I live like I..."
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live. Harper Lee
that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit. Arthur Koestler
Jack Kerouac quote: "He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked -..."
He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling. Jack Kerouac
William Shakespeare quote: "How like a winter hath my absence been"
How like a winter hath my absence been William Shakespeare
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches. Friedrich Nietzsche
J. M. Barrie quote: "it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what..."
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. J. M. Barrie
Sarah Zettel quote: "What's it like where they live?"It's everything you want it to..."
What's it like where they live?"It's everything you want it to be. Sarah Zettel
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do aim at human hearts. And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heat, as Death with cold; So that I fear they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So Love’s inflamd shaft or brand May kill as soon... Ben Jonson
I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The... Haruki Murakami
It gets so tiring, this strong-picking-on-the-weak stuff. It was the story of my life -literally- and it seemed to be a big part of the outside world too. I was sick of it, sick of guys like these, stupid and bullying. James Patterson

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