PandemicSoul Quotelog

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’.

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

- on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

- Lady Windemere’s Fan

I’m not sure who he is, but I get the feeling he’s got his hand in a lot of things.

- speaking on Jim Henson

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

Some mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.