"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question." William Godwin
"How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?" Phineas Taylor Barnum
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind." Princess Antoine (Elizabeth Asquith) Bibesco
painting by Augustus John
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." Henry Ford
"Many years ago, ... many, MANY years ago... I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!" Walter Houghston