Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Richard M. Nixon

CORALINE'S STORYTHERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.

Neil Gaiman

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Phil Collins

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

Stephen Hawking

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

James Baldwin

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Pope John Paul II

My trade and art is to live.

Michel de Montaigne

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

Neil Gaiman

One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

Caroline Wozniacki

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

John Green

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

Steven Wright