"Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!"

“I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.”

Source : George C. Wolfe, Chic Street Man, Zora Neale Hurston (1991). “Two”

“I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.”

“I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.”

“The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.”

“I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.”

“May they rest in eternal peace.”

“The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.”

Source : Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

“It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.”