laura’s most recent Quotables

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.

I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it’ll take a whole lot of rock, water & dirt. Also, not sure where to put it.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't dare stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Three little sentences will get you through life. Number one: Cover for me. Number two: Oh, good idea, boss. Number three: It was like that when I got here.

When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Prior to the Internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Knowledge doesn't keep any better than fish.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Where there's tea there's hope.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had 1,060.