What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Margot Kidder

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

Charlize Theron

Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it

Mark Twain

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.

Doug Coupland

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

Jeff Goodell

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

Diane Lane

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.

Blaise Pascal

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Virgil Thomson

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.

Angela Johnson

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Johann von Goethe