I was an ugly kid. I worked in a pet store. People kept asking how big I get.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

Oscar Wilde

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Don Herold

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

Brian Mulroney

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

Philippa Gregory

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

Joe Shuster

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

Pope Shenouda III

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Robert M. Pirsig

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

Morgan Matson

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

W. S. Merwin

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

Albert Camus

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell