Clergyman's

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope

“Before I was married, I didn’t consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn’t do ‘do-it-yourself.’ When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.”
– Ayelet Waldman

“I think there’s something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.”
– China Mieville