Famous Quotes

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."

"Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared."

"French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused."

"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!"

"I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored"

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

"Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep."

"It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up."

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."

"As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune"

"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?"

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence"

"It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget."

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."

"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."

"Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."

"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."

"Puns are the highest form of literature."

"Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"All the time."