• Mark Twain: '

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.'

• Alfred Lord Tennyson: 'Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.'
• Alfred Lord Tennyson: 'I am a part of all that I have met.'
• Debbie Harry: 'But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.'
• Emo Phillips: 'How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand.'
• George Bernard Shaw: 'My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.'
• George Carlin: 'Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.'
• George Orwell: 'All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.'
• Henry David Thoreau: 'A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.'
• Ian Hacking: 'Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.'
• Joe Pantoliano: 'That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.'
• Joseph Heller: 'Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.'
• Joseph Heller: 'Rise above principle and do what's right.'
• Liam Neeson: 'I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?'
• Liam Neeson: 'In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?'
• Mark Twain: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell.'
• Neil Gaiman: 'It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.'
• Neil Gaiman: 'Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.'
• Oscar Wilde: 'A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.'
• Oscar Wilde: 'People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.'
• Peter O'Toole: 'When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.'
• Robert Downey Jr: 'Aside from the fact that it's been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I'd say the vibe of the show's pretty good so far, wouldn't you?'
• Simon Pegg: 'I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.'
• Spike Milligan: 'My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.'
• Stephen Fry: 'An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.'
• Stephen Fry: 'It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.'
• Terry Pratchett: 'All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is bastards.'
• Vladomir Nabokov: 'I confess, I do not believe in time.'