Representative Michael Capuano, to CEOs of the Big Three Automobile Manufacturers

My fear is that you're going to take this money and continue the same stupid decisions you've made for 25 years.

Mark Twain

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

Jack Handey

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

William Ockham

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Joseph Addison

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joan Didion

Perhaps the Las Vegas wedding industry achieved its peak operational efficiency between 9 p.m. and midnight of August 26, 1965, an otherwise unremarkable Thursday that happened to be, by presidential order, the last day on which anyone could improve his draft status merely by getting married.