I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

...I am sure that when we love we are better than ourselves and when we hate, worse.

Erica Jong

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

Doug Coupland

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BC, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.

Jerry A. Coyne

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Swoosie Kurtz

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Sir Thomas Browne

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

George Bernard Shaw

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them. the look seemed to say.

Cassandra Clare