Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Rebecca West

Which of the Himalayas is the shortest?

Steven Wright

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

C.S. Lewis

Despotism is a long crime.

Victor Hugo

If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Primo Levi

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Steve Jobs

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Lynda Barry

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Jonathan Sacks

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.

Jane Austen, The narrator, in No

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

Joe Flanigan