American business is about maximizing shareholder value. You basically don’t want workers. You hire less, and you try to find capital equipment to replace them.
–Allen Sinai (chief global economist at the research firm Decision Economics)

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It’s not the job of the mind to tell us who we are.
–A.H. Almaas

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For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Everyone has a plan until they’ve been hit.
–Joe Louis

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There’s often a rush to trade time for money, even though a variety of studies have found people who are “time affluent” are happier than those who are materially affluent.
–Laura Rowley

Most movies are simpleminded and pretend it is earth-shakingly important whether this boy and this girl mate forever, when a lot of young romance is just window-shopping and role-playing, and everyone knows it. You break up, you sigh, you move on. The process is so universal that with some people, you sigh as you meet them, in anticipation.
–Roger Ebert

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.
–Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, “Why?” Why did I cause so much pain? Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can’t I see how we’re all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God’s got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, “No, that’s not right.” Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything.
–Chuck Palahniuk

* Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

* When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’

* Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

I heard on the radio that we creatures have about a billion and a half heartbeats to use. Voles and birds use theirs fast as do meth heads and stockbrokers, while whales and elephants are slower. This morning I’m thinking of recounting mine to see exactly where I am.
–Jim Harrison