They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

The Laws of Clothing Shopping:If you like it, they don't have it in your size.If you like it and it fits, you can't afford it.If you like it, it fits and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wear it.If the shoe fits, its ugly.

Proverb

I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.

Phil Hartman

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

David Hyde Pierce

“If religion is opposed to reason and science, faith is impossible; and when faith and confidence in the divine religion are not manifest in the heart, there can be no spiritual attainment.”

Abdu'l-Baha

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Edna O'Brien

The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.

Serge Daney

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Jerry Garcia

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

Lauren DeStefano

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

Virgil

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Milan Kundera

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Orson Scott Card