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When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'

We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

One day he went away and I thought I'd die, but I didn't. And I said to myself: 'is that all there is to love?'

The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

Trust, Kiki said, Trust is peppermints.

I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.

I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.