Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Defiance through compliance.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem.

One who is at peace can draw good from everything.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

I enjoy yoga a lot, not even for the workout.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.