"Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order."

“The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.”

“As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.”

“My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.”

“Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

Source : Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

“I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.”

Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.327, Dell

“When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.”

Source : Song: The Dream Shatterer, Album: Endangered Species, 2001

“I worked in a paper factory the week after I left school. I had loads of paper cuts all over my hands and the pay was dreadful. On my third day I was like, 'Can I leave early? I've got an audition for Coronation Street.' They said yes and I never went back.”