Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

David Letterman

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

David Mamet

SHE OF NOBODY ELSE'S BIDDING: That is who I am now--someone who has not done what anyone else said since July 2008, though not because I am either disobedient or a slacker.

Margaret Roach

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Bench

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

Paul Getty

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Ecology is rather like sex -- every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it.

Michael Allaby