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"I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not. It tooks me years to find out..." J. D. Salinger
"The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a night." Nietzsche
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein
"Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big." George Carlin
"I love to doubt as well as know." Dante
"I think; therefore I am." Rene Descartes
"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life." Albert Camus
"After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave--a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown.--And we--we still have to vanquish his shadow, too." Nietzsche
"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right." Woody Allen
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." Albert Einstein
"The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." Woody Allen
"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." Woody Allen
"At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time." Woody Allen
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly" Woody Allen
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen
"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down." Woody Allen
"I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." Woody Allen
"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else." Woody Allen
"I am at two with nature." Woody Allen
"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." Woody Allen
"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." Woody Allen
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." Woody Allen
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." Woody Allen
"Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered." Woody Allen
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." Woody Allen
"It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune." Woody Allen
"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best." Woody Allen
"To *you* I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." Woody Allen
"No matter how cynical you are, you can't keep up." Woody Allen
"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman." Woody Allen
"Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big." George Carlin
"The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life." George Carlin
"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." George Carlin
"it takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." e.e. cumming
"I love to doubt as well as know." Dante
"...and thus we beat on, boats against the current...born back ceaselessly into the past..." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"My politeness is a trick of the heart." F. Scott Fitzgerald