Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Erica Jong

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

James Madison

The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do.

J.D. Salinger

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Steven Wright

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

Thomas Huxley

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pt

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Eric Temple Bell

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Stephen King

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Roger Kahn