"If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list."

“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”

“Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.”

Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.121, Penguin

“It never seizes to amaze me how much I enjoy playing here and how much you fans have meant to me over the years.”

“In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.”

“You will attract everything that you require. If it’s money you need you will attract it. If it’s people you need you’ll attract it. You’ve got to pay attention to what you’re attracted to, because as you hold images of what you want, you’re going to be attracted to things and they’re going to be attracted to you. But it literally moves into physical reality with and through you. And it does that by law. (Bob Proctor)”

“Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.”

“I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.”

“They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt