A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Terry Pratchett

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Diane Wakoski

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Mark Twain

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.

John Updike

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

George Orwell

These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.

Curtis Stone

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.

Jonathan Brown