Candace Bushnell
- Before Carrie Ruled the Planet
I didn't have a place to live. Anne and I made a deal. I had to answer the phone and pretend to be her secretary and I could live there. I slept on a foldout couch. I had no money. I probably made $2,000 a month. When you want to do something, who cares?
W.S. Gilbert
- The Yeomen of the Guard
Tush, man, thou knowest not how to woo. 'Tis not to be done with time-worn jests and thread-bare sophistries; with quips, conundrums, rhymes, and paradoxes. 'Tis an art in itself, and must be studied gravely and conscientiously.
Drew McDermott
- Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crack-pottery. Many critics have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward this charge, drawing ourselves up with dignity when it is made and folding the cloak of Science about us. On the other hand, in private we have been justifiably proud of our willingness to explore weird ideas, because pursuing them is the only way to make progress.
Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women
I'm in the kitchen cooking spaghetti when the woman calls. Another moment until the spaghetti is done; there I am, whistling the prelude to Rossini's La Gazza Ladra along with the FM radio. Perfect spaghetti-cooking music.
Apollonius of Rhodes
- The Voyage of the Argo
Moved by the god of song, I set out to commemorate the heroes of old who sailed the good ship Argo up the Straits into the Black Sea and between the Cyanean Rocks in quest of the Golden Fleece.
