I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Clint Eastwood

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann von Goethe

the mind is a neural computer

Steven Pinker

Next comes the realist phase (After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.).

Terry Pratchett

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

G. K. Chesterton

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

Joni Mitchell

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings...Boy With Pail...Kitten On Fire.

Steven Wright

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

Richard Dawkins

I love traffic. It's fantastic. New York traffic is so relaxing.

Chris Kattan

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

William Cowper