"I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians." David Hume
"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning
"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous." Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts." Archibald MacLeish
"Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode." Gary Cooper
"If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing." Eva (Evita) Peron
"Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult." Sophie Feldman
"There's a big difference between confidence and conceit."
"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink." Angela Carter
"I am just a guy who plays drums." Bill Kreutzmann
"He's the kind of guy that would be really sweet to a girl and bring her flowers, but still take a pee in the alley." Nora Louise Kuzma