"No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight."

“If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.”

“Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation.”

“When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.”

Source : "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe". Play by Jane Wagner, 1985.

“There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.”

Source : "Remembering Senator Edward Kennedy; School Bus Cuts Nationwide; More Banks in Big Trouble". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. August 27, 2009.

“Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, 'the jihadists' Mein Kampf,' in reference to Hitler's memoir.”

“True wilderness is where you keep it, and real wilderness experience cannot be a sedentary one; you have to seek it out not seated, but afoot.”

“I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?”

“Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.”