It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Edward R. Murrow

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Albert Camus

Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

Lincoln Chafee

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Eric Berne, Games People Play

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Marilyn Monroe

We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas, Letter, 1936; publ

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When the tide of life turns against youAnd the current upsets your boat,Don't waste tears on what might have been,Just lie on your back and float.

Anon.

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

Jack Kemp

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield