"If it didn't matter, you wouldn't be thinking about it."

"Never give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about"

"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses a one-way street."

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

"Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."

..."Don't believe in miracles - depend on them."

"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."

"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence."

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."

"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other."

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."

"If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else."

"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."

"Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

"The cream always rises to the top but a lot becomes sour on the way."

Numbers, PBS Newshour,

Stay, Mulholland Drive, Good Will Hunting, Apocalyse Now, Lord of War,

Yukio Mishima, Lawrence Durrell, Dan Simmons, Neal Stephenson, Zornberg, Chaim Potok,