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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.