"I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them."

“Each man dreams his own heaven.”

“America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.”

“The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.”

“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”

“You get dealt a hand and you play those cards the best you can.”

Source : "'The Bachelorette's Chris Soules: Nick Viall gloats and just handles situations poorly, not like a gentleman with tact". Interview with Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, www.realitytvworld.com. June 20, 2014.

“An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond....a good feeling about his art.”

Source : "Poetry and the World". Book by Robert Pinsky, 1988.

“At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.”

“These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.”

Source : Stephen Crane (1970). “The Works of Stephen Crane Vol. 5: Tales of Adventure”, University of Virginia Press