"I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners."

“Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.”

“Emery cut in impatiantly, "For crying out loud. Who do you think you are, Nancy Drew?" Hey," I snapped, because no one sniped at my sister but me, and Mark echoed with a stern "Chill, dude." Phin was unperturbed. "Those books were highly unrealistic. Do you have any idea how much brain damage a person would have if she were hit on the head and drugged with chloroform that often?”

“Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.”

Source : Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.59, Cowley Publications

“I also love a good cheesy movie, and I'm kind of addicted to my computer.”

“Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.”

“I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

“O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.”

“Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1983.