History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

I wish I'd known you when you were alive.

Book - what they make a movie out of for television.

Only the dead have no troubles.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man, because it is the man and not the woman, who has to bear the responsibility for his seed

I stared, like always. A tree in the Petrified Forest. I looked down at my hands and feet and ordered them to move, only they wouldn’t.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

I am definitely a west London girl.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Each genre has something to teach me about the others. Not all the lessons are transferable, but many of the most important ones are.

There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.