I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

J.K. Rowling

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If toast always lands butterside down, and cats always land ontheir feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a catand drop it?

Steven Wright

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

Lindsay Lohan

It's been a rough day. I got up this morning . . . put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up by briefcase and the handle came off. Now I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.

Rodney Dangerfield

Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.

Cassandra Clare

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

Mark Twain

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Arnold Bennett

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions

Mahatma Gandhi

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

Eric Bogosian