I have a very big sweet tooth and I love treating myself to something that I wouldn't necessarily eat during the tournament such as a nice-sized cake.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Norman Cousins, Saturday Review

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.

Soren Kierkegaard

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Willem de Kooning

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

Roger Caras

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Ray Romano

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Koichi Tanaka

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Jean Baudrillard

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

Johann von Goethe

The white noise in his heart, the sum of all his colors the metronome to which he beat [was she].

Coco J. Ginger

“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”

C.S. Lewis

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

Jerry O'Connell