In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

Christopher Hitchens

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

E. M. Cioran

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

Diane Kruger

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Noam Chomsky

Hey, you're getting to be almost worth how much it costs to feed you. Good thing, 'cause I got no plan to eat less.

Orson Scott Card

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Victor Hugo

It is easy to be brave from a distance.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.

Daniel Handler

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

Walter Benjamin

Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

Kurt Vonnegut

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it can usually borrow temporarily at reasonable rates. But if, like a spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, and is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending; if it extends its taxing to the limit of the peoples power to pay and continues to pile up deficits, then it is on the road to bankruptcy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt