"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

“Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going to have to sit on the couch," Stephanie snapped, sounding for all the world like a stern schoolteacher.”

“The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.”

“I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.”

Source : The Idler Interview (1896), as quoted in "Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography" by Matthew Sturgis, 1999.

“I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.138, Penguin

“One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.”

Source : Source: au.askmen.com

“It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.”

“John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.”

Source : "Interview with John Byrne: Editor and Founder of Rawstory.com". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

“Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.”