"Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people."

“I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”

“Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.”

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

“No subject is unsuitable for comedy.”

Source : "Dead funny" by Peter Baynham, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2004.

“For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.”

“Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.”

“The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.”

Source : "A Book of French Quotations" edited by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

“My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.”