“You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks.”

“Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it and sort of reassess it, and see if you've fallen into bad habits or there's something you'd like to get better at. One way of reexamining your own work is to work with somebody else. It's a learning experience. I don't want to get into a rut.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

“Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

“Where to look if you've lost your mind?”

Bernard Malamud book The Fixer

“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“It's like a supply and demand thing. It's like 'Well, this is what they want me to do, this is what they want to hear. So I'll do more of this, cuz this is great… and they love me.' Suddenly people start giving you money as well. So then you've got money and you get used to this lifestyle. And you don't wanna take any risks 'cause they've got you by the balls, and you've got all these little things that you've bought, or you're attached to. And you start spending all this money… And that's how they get ya!”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

“Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

“Please, Percy… change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

“It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?”

Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer

“You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?”

Raymond Carver book Cathedral