"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."

"Confound those who have said our remarks before us."

"With just enough of learning to misquote."

"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester."

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."

"Whenever you fall, pick up something"

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)"

"Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow."

"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions."

"This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters."

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."

"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

"The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen"

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations."

"LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune."

"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance."