Well? I've had a great birthday so far. Are you going to make it the most memorable one of my life by telling me you love me back?" ~Isaiah Coulter
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out. ' That's what we did.
That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"