Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-Dorothy Parker

This is better than going for a walk!

-One of the five-year olds when the other teacher put in a movie about Jesus bible stories

Isn't it over yet?

-The same five-year old when the movie was still going twenty minutes later

I never smile if I can help it.... Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life.

-Dwight Schrute, from the TV show The Office

Society teaches us that, having feelings and crying is bad and wrong. Well, that's baloney, because grief isn't wrong. There's such a thing as good grief. Just ask Charlie Brown.

-Michael, from the TV show The Office

I believe that throughout most of history... artists work together quite naturally in family groups. I would just like to state that the idea that art can only be produced by obsessed individuals is a neurotic aberration of our times.

-Mark Boyle

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 that is not true.

-Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

-Paul Dirac

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

-Irv Kupcinet

How do I know that the word 'I' stands for me?

-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Grammar

Literal-mindedness doesn't get you anywhere very interesting. I want to take bigger leaps.

-David Salle