"Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?" "Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?"

“Adversity does not build character,it reveals it”

“In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.”

“The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.”

“I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.”

Source : "How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. September 22, 2011.

“Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.”

“I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher”, p.629, Open Road Media

“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”

“My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.”