As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Cameron Diaz

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

Rodney Dangerfield

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Eighth of September

Pablo Neruda

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must see these opportunities; they must be real for you. The catch is that they can't seem real if your mind is buried in past failures, if you keep reliving old mistakes, old guilts, old tragedies. Fight your way above the many inevitable Traumatizations of your ego, escape damnation by the past, and look to the opportunities of the present. I don't mean some vague moment in the present -- next week or next month, perhaps. I mean today, this minute.

Maxwell Maltz

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

Neil LaBute

The young specialist in English Lit, ... lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.... My answer to him was

Isaac Asimov

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Peace Pilgrim

The two best physicians of them all -- Dr. Laughter and Dr. Sleep.

Gregory Dean Jr.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Lech Walesa