July 5 Birthdays

Life is a horizontal fall.

Reality continues to ruin my life. Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesnt matter what body it came out of. Ive never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.

The first play that I saw was Cyrano, and I remember going home - I was like nine years old - and trying to learn the monologues.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

I basically taught myself how to DJ, but Ive been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.

The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

Music should never be harmless.

We've made our deals with the devil.