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- Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
- Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
- He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
- Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony
- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
- Peter De Vries
- The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
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