My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Ronald Reagan

An excess of science will leave none of us alive.

R. A. Lafferty

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon.

John Newcombe

Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what he said, but Maria Lucas told me afterwards that he had been -' (she smiled) 'amazingly impertinent.''Peter actually spoke to Papa?''He did. According to Maria, he had the impudence to criticise Mr Bennet for his treatment of you. I must say it gives me the most favourable idea of his character.

Jennifer Paynter

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Jim Morrison

In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

Horace

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

Orson Scott Card

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Louise Bogan

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

Anon.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf