Karen Joy Fowler Quote

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...