"I want us to be something that we can't."
"What's that?"
"A normal couple."
                        -- Holden, Alyssa, "Chasing Amy"

"I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic
 character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years,
 is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have
 blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs
 to get a wider frame of reference."
                        -- J. Michael Straczynski

It is well to remember that the entire universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

     - John Andrew Holmes 

If you see that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go
    wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will
    promptly develop.

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this 
look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"

                -Dave Barry