"I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die."

“I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.”

Source : Source: flamesnation.ca

“It used to be that you would go into a writing program and what you would learn was how to write a short story. You would pick up the magazines and you would be taught from the magazines how to write a short story. Nowadays student writers are learning to write novels because that market is gone, so the ones who are drawn to the form are doing it really for reasons of their own and that's really exciting.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want.”

Source : FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 12, 2012

“In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.”

“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”

“Maybe I think too much for my own good.”

“[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

“I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.”