You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Abraham Lincoln

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

I want to expand my cuisine to this country. I love America. I have been here 22 years.

Masaharu Morimoto

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Abel Ferrara

There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929.

William S. Burroughs

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Jim Davis

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

Ellen DeGeneres

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Heath Ledger

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Mary Todd Lincoln

It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson