I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.

Lori Gordon

Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Samuel Johnson

There aren't enough days in the weekend.

Steven Wright

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Albert Schweitzer

If toast always lands butter side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it

Steven Wright

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Alfred North Whitehead

When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

Tim Reid

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Jason Reitman

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Roscoe Mitchell

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen