When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

Jodi Picoult

I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

Todd Barry

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

Goldie Hawn

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrels' lyre?

James Weldon Johnson

I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

Tim Heidecker

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.

William Cowper

A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off

William Shakespeare

Tomorrow never comes.

Proverb

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau