“They say 'Find somewhere inside yourself to get better,' because that's what I'm doing everyday of the week, every minute of the day. They have no tolerance for anything else. None.”— Rick Fox, amazon.com
“How's the patient? Dead to the world But not actually dead? No How nice–to feel nothing and still get credit for being alive.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Eisenhower made it look easy. Like he was always doing less work than he really was.”— Jean Edward Smith, amazon.com
“Because they have nothing in their hearts they must swallow and defend principles they know nothing about...They do not sympathize except hypocritically.”— John Fante, amazon.com
“Power doesn't so much corrupt; that's too simple. It fragments, closes options, mesmerizes.”— Shelby Foote, amazon.com
“As I see it, life furnishes just one panacea, if so much for all the ills and accidents of life: it is work–and more work.”— Theodore Dreiser, amazon.com
“Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have your breaks relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarter back who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flack on his…”— Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe, amazon.com
“Steve Jobs was adopted. He asked his parents if that meant they didn't love him: No, you have to understand. We specifically picked you out.”— Walter Isaacson, amazon.com
“Steve Jobs hires Paul Rand to design NEXT's logo and requests options: I will solve your problem and you will pay me. You can use what I produce or not, but I will not do options and either way you will pay me.”— Walter Isaacson, amazon.com
“'Who do you think will win the war?' Asked a woman of him in 1919. 'My dear friend...may I ask you who won the San Francisco earthquake?'”— Irvin Cobb, amazon.com
“I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know's I've accomplished anything except just get along. I figure out I've made about a quarter of an inch out of a possible hundred rods. Well, maybe you'll carry things on further. I don't know. But I do get a kind of sneaking…”— Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, amazon.com
“The most heartbreaking thing about it is: the better you got, the harder you have to work–because your standards will rise with your ability. I mentioned 'work'–it's the wrong word: because if you're serious, the whole creative process is attended with pleasure in a form which very few people ever k…”— Shelby Foote, amazon.com
“I'm the first to admit it–I've never lived by the rules. The people who make them don't, so why should I?”— Robert Evans, amazon.com
“Saddam is a loner by nature, and power increases isolation. A young man without power or money is completely free. He has nothing, but he also has everything. He can travel, he can drift. He can make new acquaintances every day, and try to soak up the infinite variety of life. He can seduce and be s…”— Mark Bowden, amazon.com
“The idea that we could control the course of our lives through rational choices was as absurd as a fish trying to control the ocean in which it swam.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Your destiny is the level where you will play your tune. You might not change your instrument but how well you play is entirely in your hands.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com