"The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!"

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“My favorite athletes of any Olympics are always the African distance runners. You never have to drug test an African distance runner.”

“There is one man that we can run for office that even the French would say "Fuck off!" That man...is Jack Nicholson. Yes! You will never have a sex scandal with Jack because he has fucked everyone!”

“I was on this German talk show and this woman said to me, she said, "Mr. Williams, why do you think there's not so much comedy in Germany?" I said, "Did you ever think you killed all the funny people?" And...it was...and here's where it got interesting. She didn't bat an eyelash. She just went "No". At that point, even God's going, "Do you get it?!" German comedy: "Knock-knock--We ask the questions!.”

“Mind not my words — Let the play be the thing. I'll get back forth and touch myself anon.”

“I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators.”

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

Resonant Thoughts

"It was possible at last to hear the silence—to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light."

— Robert Charles Wilson

Literature1953

#language

"The dark and distant drummingThe pounding of the hoovesThe silence of everything that movesLate at night you'll see themdecked out in shiny jewelsthe coming of the caravan of fools"

— John Prine

Music1946–2020

#language

"We are approaching the point where more and more Palestinians will say: we have been won over. We agree with Liberman. There is no room for two states between the Jordan and the sea. All that we want …"

— Ehud Olmert

Politics1945

#justice

"He was never in one spot for more than half a second, all my punches were aimed and timed properly but they always wound up hitting empty air. He'd jump in and out, slamming me with a left and whirlin…"

— Gene Tunney

1897–1978

#time