"Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery."

“...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.”

“A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2008.

“So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.”

Source : "The Evolution of the Human Intellect".

“Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.”

“I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”

“The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.”

“Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.”

Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.105