This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

Aldous Huxley

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

William M. Peck

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

Vin Scully

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

Natalie Goldberg

Pair up in threes.

Yogi Berra

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Jorge Luis Borges

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Timothy Zahn

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Billy Sunday

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

Clive Owen

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Sammy Cahn

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get, Consenting, he did speak up;'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it in my teacup. --Joel Huck

Ambrose Bierce