"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)

"She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be."
— Karen Marie Moning (Darkfever)

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

""Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.""
— William Gibson (Idoru)

"One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy"
— William Gibson