Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. – Fred Allen
Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And theres no doubt about that. We just dont like to think about it. Certainly the men dont like to think about it. – Maurice Sendak
Whats interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: Its either a utopia or its misery. The real truth is that theres going to be both things in any future, just like there is now. – Albert Brooks
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. – Plato, The Republic