Really Said That

Real people are your story, then you add words.

Satire is a news item with a longer nose.

Being a role model implies that you’re doing it all right. No one does it all right. A real role model is a good parent – they do most things wrong, and teach by example.

Saying something has a cult following isn’t quite fair. No one ever held people hostage in a Grease 2 compound.

Power lies on the border between recklessness and discipline. To cross a border unnoticed is the challenge.

Rule 1: There are no robots.

Dash it all.

All I kept thinking was about how Dean was being literally torn apart from the insides by dysentery. I stuck with this interpretation of who the real man was, and I think it served me well.

There's a song in everyone's heart. For some, it's a jig. For others, a waltz. For some of us, it's Klezmer, all the way.

One broken mirror equaled 70 years good luck.

No ruler of a theocracy ever assumed himself to speak to God; all one needs do is simply assert that one can.

American accents are beautiful in the hands of the right English person.

Though the Lord speaketh through me, I am but a messenger, not a puppet. Give me any chance; I'll take it. Read me any rule; I'll break it.

No one can "play" music. Good music comes from toil. You work music. If you've worked it well, the mind of the listener is freed to play with the music as it sees fit.

Any species traveling outside their own world won't be looking for intelligent life. They'd be more like us, if we had the power to leave our solar system - they'd be looking to leave stupid life behind.

Judgment is the tool of those who are most afraid of being judged. Those who have resigned themselves to being judged have the luxury of compassion as their only tool.

If time is a construct, then so is life. We measure what we see and feel using something we invented but can't remotely grasp. Perhaps that explains why life is made out to be such a chore for most of us.