When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz