DMX, You have been Punk'd! DMX: Oh, yeah? You have been stabbed!--Chris Rock, on the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.--Christopher Morley

I'm off like a dirty shirt.--Duckie, Pretty in Pink

In relationships, I am always the innocuous, substantially less cooler one. I am always friends with a hero, or someone who could be CONSIDERED a hero. My close friends are the prettier, funnier, more talented, more interesting ones--the ones people gravitate to. I am the one who worries, the one who's lucky that the hero takes the time to be with anyway, because we all know sidekicks aren't exactly the coolest people in the world. I am the one who makes the hero look good because I'm substandard in comparison. In all of my relationships, I'm the Gene to their Finny; the Bess to their Nancy Drew; the Robin to their Batman.

I'm a freaking sidekick. And we all know that sidekicks get no play.--me, in the journal, July 18

I'm a skin-ny whi-ite boy with a big ole bla-ack voice!--Hal Sparks on I Love the 80s, about Rick Astley

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.--Ringo Starr

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.--John Allston

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.--William Westmoreland

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.--General George Patton

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.--Gore Vidal

Passion gives us our greatest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, the ecstasy of grief.-- from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show)

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.--Will Rogers

"New York, New York", as in Frank Sinatra "New York, New York"?--me, to Eric, at the musical auditons, November 2003

... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.--Stephen King

Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.--anonymous

Coffee, chocolate, men. Some things are just better rich.--anonymous

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.--F. P. Jones

It was like nothing I'd heard before, but everything in the past I'd loved before.--Rob Thomas, about U2's album The Joshua Tree, on I Love the 80s

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry [the] most.--Drew Barrymore

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.--Katharine Hepburn