On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

E. O. Wilson

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Rashida Jones

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Mark Zuckerberg

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.

Roseanne Barr

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Victor Hugo

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Christopher Morley

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

Joseph De Maistre

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

Gordon Sumner

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

P. D. Armour

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Wendy Liebman

Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.

Cassandra Clare