"I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. "
— Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones)

"It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again."
— Dan Barden

"Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no"
— Richard Branson

""If you are not yelling at your kids,you are not spending enough time with them." "
— Reese Witherspoon

"You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes."
— Ronald Reagan

"I get something uplifting out of painting an ugly picture. It's just my DNA."
— Billy Joel Armstrong

"I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation."
— Bill Bryson

""What, me worry?""
— Alfred E. Neuman (MAD About Politics: An Outrageous Pop-up Political Parody)