"I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead."

“Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.”

“Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.”

Source : "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

“The hinge is distinctly different, so when you look at it carefully, you recognize that it is its own unique design.”

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

“There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.”

Source : 1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

“A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.”

“Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.”

“Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.”