"Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." ~Satchel Paige

"Looks ridiculous on paper, but boy does it sound good on the radio!" ~jG Francis, on "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked--as I am surprisingly often--why I bother to get up in the mornings." ~Richard Dawkins

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"What?! You haven't raked your shag?!" ~Sara Kaye, on proper rug maintenance

"Earth's crammed with heaven." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?" ~Daniel Handler, Adverbs

"Have you ever noticed how good her hair smells?"
~Ben Pringle to Fudge, on Sara

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt." ~Margaret Atwood

"Astronauts wear diapers." ~jG Francis

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry; it'll change." ~John A. Simone Sr.

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, which demanded that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same." ~Norman Mailer

"You think that, but you've never seen me cross a river." ~Fudge, on tuffness

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect..." ~E.M. Forster

"Christine, I would never leave you in the middle of the desert, I wouldn't leave my worst enemy in the middle of the desert." ~Fudge, on trust

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Cool people have hot rods."
~back of a semi on I-15 headed to Vegas

"Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman--you only call her a bitch 'cause she wouldn't let you get that pussy." ~Aesop Rock

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." ~Mary Oliver, Blackwater Woods

"I saw on Oprah once, yeah, you heard me, that trucks transporting hazardous chemicals from LA to Florida didn't want to come back empty, so they'd rinse them out and bring back orange juice." ~jG Francis

"Ride it until the wheels fall off."
~Maurice the mechanic, on love

"If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth." ~Mitsuge Saotome

"Buff taught me not to judge men in towels."
~Fudge, on self improvement

"Was I searching for a dancer whose name I did not know or was I searching for the dancing part of myself?" ~Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

"It's a funny thing; the more I practice, the luckier I get." ~Arnold Palmer

"Rico, you and I both know that I was just looking for an excuse to play the baby-making music."
~Brendan Newnam, on dinnerpartydownload.com

"Dude, you rival helicopters." ~jG Francis to me

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self." ~Muhammad Iqbal

"If you come upon a lamp with a genie in it, don't wish you had a magic wand." ~Rob Brezsny, PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings.