Through the years, I have learned that there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

-Steve Martin


Alice laughed, "There's no use trying," she said, "one can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

- C.L. Dodgson



I didn't lead you on,
But there will always be
A little larceny in every heart

So hush and don't you cry
I'm trying to be kind
Because I have a perfect alibi

- EC, My Thief



-
Make your own way, there is no design for living.
-



The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

- Hunter S. Thompson


I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

-Flannery O'Connor


Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

-Umberto Eco


"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas."
(Or those of others, which is much worse - ed.)

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
So is a lot."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

-all 4 by Albert Einstein


"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

- John Cage


“Homo sum; nihil humani a me alienum puto”,
‘I am a man; nothing human is alien to me.’

-the Roman playwright Terence
Also quoted by Marx and Wilde
( today we would say "I am human..." )


If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

- Oscar Wilde



Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.

Ojibwe saying

From The Sopranos.



No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



So I threw away the rose
Held on to the thorn
Crawlin round in my crooner cufflinks
and my calling card cologne

-Elvis Costello, Mouth Almighty


I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

-Gilda Radner