There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Neil Gaiman

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go.

John Oxenham

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

Sean Penn

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

Alex Chiu

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

Constance Baker Motley

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

Wilfrid Laurier

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

Lenore Wolfe