Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's ownself.

It makes no difference whom you vote for -- the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Gore Vidal

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Kristen Wiig

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Chris Crutcher

Vote early and vote often.

William Porcher Miles

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

Music is the language of memory

Jodi Picoult

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Alison Lohman

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Richard M. Nixon