Everything changes your life.

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

Chris Pratt

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

Wilbur Smith

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Victor Hugo

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Ernest Hemingway

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Robert Teeter

I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.

John Mayer

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

Lope de Vega

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Some

Home is where the heart is.

Pliny the Elder

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Neils Bohr