One of the most beautiful scenes in the marvelous movie "Blade Runner" is the death of Roy, the replicant who didn't want to die. But die he did, and these are his last words of regret.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All these memories will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Roy BatyMake it four. I don't know if I could eat six.
Yogi Berra to a waiter who had asked him if he wanted his pizza cut in four or six pieces.
Anybody who isn't confused here does not really understand what's going on.
Belfast citizen, 1970
An optimist believes to be living in the best of all possibe worlds. a pessimist is afraid the optimist might well be right.
Ambrose Bierce
Alone, adj.:
In bad company.
-- Both by Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Dear Jim, let me the you about another amazing coincidence that tells us volumes about the universe. My legs are exactly long enough to reach the ground. This surely indicates design and therefore reveals the existence of God. Had they been longer, they wouldn't have fit in the available space. Had they been shorter, walking would have been impossible. The unbelievably fine-tuning of this variable to this fantastic precision is a great solution to the old problem of the existence of God. Think about this.
Francesco Baldessari (a.k.a. Yours Truly) . From an email I sent to my friend Jim Cohen who believes in God (he would deny this, of course, but he does). He thought this passage was funny and, after rereading it, so did I.
Those things of which I can perceive beginning and end are not myself.
Jorge Luis BorgesI prefer re-reading to reading, but one must have read before he can re-read.
Mirrors and copulation are the two most accursed things, for they multiply the number of men.
A character in a book by J. L. Borges
I am a conservative man, something which is in itself a confession of pessimism.
Jorge Luis Borges
Of all of man's tools, the book is certainly the most extraordinary. The others are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope are extensions of his eyesight. The telephone is an extension of his voice; then there are the tiller and the sword, which are extensions of his arm. But the book is a something else: it is an extension of memory and imagination.
Jorge Luis Borges
I'm still an atheist, thank god.
Luis Bunuel
There is no immortality but in the memory of men.
Napoleone Bonaparte