The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.

Steven Wright

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

Michel de Montaigne

Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation.

Roger Stark

I was seven years old. What do you know when you're seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we'd been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.

Anne Rice

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

Ronald Reagan

The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

Holly Black

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Giorgio Moroder

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

William Shakespeare, Henry IV Pa

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

David Foster Wallace

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Mark Twain