nwill’s most recent Quotables

"Amen" was the medieval equivalent of "Send".

We are dealing with a manifestation of a delusion, a kind of hallucination

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Escape or die frying.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Does for rock and roll what ‘The Sound of Music’ did for hills.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bronte, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. The horrible are the cancer patients and the terminal cases... the miserable is everyone else. So, be thankful that you're miserable.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.