But in the end, black can never be white, one plus one must always equal two, and Mara Lynn was a normal little girl.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Arthur Bloch

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

Jamie Moyer

My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

Carrie Ann Inaba

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

J. D. Salinger

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one...

Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Demo

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confessio

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him!If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for himspeak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Hubbard

I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.

Emily Deschanel

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

Stephen Malkmus

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

Man Ray