I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

Um, uh, gah.

Rick Riordan

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Terry Pratchett

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Cornel West

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

James Hilton

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Virginia Woolf

In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty.

Frances Vaughn Roger Walsh

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

Tony Wilson