Booknotes Interviews Quotes

#1. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

John Parker

#2. The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

William Golding

#3. During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

J.G. Ballard

#4. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life

Pope John Paul II

#5. Little kids play house; they play war; they play relationships.

John Green

#6. The past is always a rebuke to the present.

Robert Penn Warren

#7. 'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

Sean Paul

#8. It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#9. Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Zig Ziglar

#10. I think every athlete has their window of opportunity, and you just have to jump on it. You never know when it can end. So I'm just trying to live large while I have the opportunity.

Hope Solo

#11. For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

Marcia Cross