I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

Shana Alexander

She had been trying hourly to ensure that this new friendship remained such, to be certain that it would not slip out of the careful grasp of her fingers and into the darker champers of her heart.

Shamim Sarif

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

E. M. Forster

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

Robert Andrews Millikan

No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.

W. C. Fields

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

Kurt Vonnegut

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Tim Robbins

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Benjamin Franklin

I am not willing to risk the lives of German soldiers for countries whose names we cannot spell properly.

Volker Ruhe

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

John Burroughs

The reason I love the sea I cannot explain -- it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.

JacquesYves Cousteau