"Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?"

“Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.”

“Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.”

“We cannot be afraid of the dark that they live in.”

“Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous.”

“I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.”

“It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?”

Source : Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.212

“I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books