"As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence."

“Optimization hinders evolution.”

“People seem weak, but they’re strong. They seem strong, but they’re weak. No matter how much you cry, you still have to sleep. And you even get hungry. You suddenly realize you’re doing the same things you did yesterday. You say hi to your friends and smile just like you did yesterday. Life goes on as if nothing ever happened… I want to go somewhere… Anywhere… Somewhere where I can forget everything. …where I’ll forget everything …and be reborn. Mars Volume 18”

“I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.”

“The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

“Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.”

Source : Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.357, Rowman & Littlefield

“Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.”

“A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.”