Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

A Bay Area Bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

Woody Allen

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Marcia Wallace

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.

Kurt Vonnegut

Let us banish fear.

Carter G. Woodson

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

Matt Cameron

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

James Cameron

You have to be emotionally attached to what you are doing.

Brad Bird

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

Carlos Ghosn

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney