Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
- Anatole France

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
- Steven Wright

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- GK Chesterton

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
-Unknown

Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana