"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."

“What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.”

“Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.”

“A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”

Source : Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

“The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.”

“I invest in people. I think: people first, projects second.”

“We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.”

Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

“I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.”

“The most annoying thing I found was all the people pretending to be me on MySpace and Facebook. I'm not a member of either, but apparently there is an 'official' Nikki Sanderson MySpace page, complete with rants about how terrible identity fraud is, which is ironic.”