And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. Deuteronomy 10:19

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.

Alan Jackson

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Mark Twain

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

Marlon Wayans

I looked at the campers, all of them grim and determined. I tried not to feel like this was the last time I'd ever see them all together. 'You're the greatest heroes of this millennium,' I told them. 'It doesn't matter how many monsters come at you. Fight bravely, and we will win.' I raised Riptide and shouted, 'FOR OLYMPUS!' They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown.

Rick Riordan

Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.

Sandra Bullock

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Branford Marsalis

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Lillian Hellman

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when!

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

George Bernard Shaw

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Norman Mailer

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61 Rod Stewart was 66 Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

Jeffrey Kluger