Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

Failure has gone to his head.

Wilson Mizner

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

Sir Thomas Browne

Once you turn forty...the whole world is water off a duck's back. Once you turn forty you realize that life is there to be wasted.

Geoff Dyer

In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

Jonathan Larson

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Lev Grossman

She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.

P. G. Wodehouse

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Steve Jobs

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Ginger Rogers

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

Karen Armstrong

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Aldous Huxley

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Gloria Estefan

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Livy