Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Archibald MacLeish

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

Liz Phair

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

Patrick Duffy

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

Jerome Wiesner

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Jim Goad

Men want to make women happy.

Jerry Seinfeld

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Ivan Turgenev

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Tacitus

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

Paula Cole

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Eric Alterman