It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going to the bad. Well, yes, it has, and it is an author's job to point it out.Howard Jacobson
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.Richard Dawkins
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.Tom Stoppard
Many a trivial novel has been written about an important subject, and many a profound one about nothing in particular.Howard Jacobson
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.Gloria Steinem
In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.Malala Yousafzai
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.Ernest Hemingway
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.Andy Warhol
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.Douglas Coupland
