Well spoken!

One of the toughest things for me to learn (and I'm still learning) is that sometimes, when you do the right thing, they feed you to the lions.

But you still have to do the right thing.

-Sailor Kenshin on CAF

Parenting

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
- Doug Larson
"I think that it is distressing that one would think that it is okay to kill someone for an evil their father did. The child did nothing and I bet he doesn't want to die."
-'st lucy' on the CAF, speaking against abortion for pregnancies achieved through rape.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
- Peter De Vries

Writers, and other art

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
- Inigo DeLeon
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
- Steven Wright

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

- Edward Gibbon
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
- Bobby Knight
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- Flannery O'Connor
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson