Some of my favorite quotes:

On Writing

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."  ~ Isaac Asimov

"There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."  ~ Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." ~ Gloria Steinem

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." ~ Tom Clancy

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~ Henry Ford

"The covers of this book are too far apart." ~ Ambrose Bierce

"Write drunk; edit sober." ~ Ernest Hemingway


On Self

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." ~ Virginia Woolf

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~ Albert Einstein

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." ~ Oscar Wilde

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." ~ Salvador Dali

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." ~  George Bernard Shaw

"If you are going through hell, keep going." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Thomas Alva Edison

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." ~ Samuel Johnson

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." ~ G. B. Burgin

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." ~ Mario Andretti

"Wit is educated insolence." ~ Aristotle 

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." ~ Steven Wright 


On Relations

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." ~ Sharon Stone

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." ~ Oscar Wilde


On Vision

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." ~  Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." 
                             ~ Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." 
                            ~ Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899