A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

Jeffrey Kluger

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

Keith Thibodeaux

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Ray Stevenson

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Groucho Marx

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

Soren Kierkegaard

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

John Walters

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

Jonathan Kellerman

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Ilya G. Ehrenburg

I don't think things ought to be done because you are able to do them. I think they should be done because you ought to do them.

T.H. White

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Anthony Robbins

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

Guglielmo Marconi