"If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit."

“Each man has some part to play.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.61

“I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.”

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.42, New York : Howe & Bates

“Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.”

“I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

“Just because something happens to be legal does not make it moral, ethical or right. Abortion is perhaps one of the most dramatic examples of a situation where something is legal, but is very much a sin against God.”

“I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.24, Zondervan

“I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!”

Source : Source: www.justjared.com