I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, Well, what do you need?

Steven Wright

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

John C. Maxwell

Alas! Earwax!

J.K. Rowling

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either.

Source Unknown

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

Charles Foster Bass

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Harvey Fierstein

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

Stephen Stills

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

Thomas Brackett Reed