The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

Bill Maher

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Erma Bombeck

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

George Bernard Shaw

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Andre Breton

Tough times never last but tough people do.

John Thomas "Spider" Salley

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

Drew Endy

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

J.K. Rowling

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Thomas Sowell

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.

Dave Barry

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Steve Wozniak

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.

Bernard Devoto