"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."

“I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.”

“Today is like yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as today. God, help us! Take pity of us!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

“You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.”

Source : "Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness" by Celia Cole, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.

“Between food and fashion, there's always a direct correlations - designers have forever done prints with food on them. Vegetables, fruit, apples. There are some beautiful prints that have been made with fruit over time. I think food and restaurants have become more and more fashionable over time. That's become more of a fashion thing than fashion becoming a food thing. I don't think fashion has gotten so food oriented in the reverse aspect, but I think the whole food industry has gotten very design oriented. I think it's a nice way of putting things together.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

“Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.”

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”

“Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.”