Quotes from authors passed in 1996
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
Tupac Shakur
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck
Ricardo Montalban 
Hilaire Belloc 
Leopoldo Lopez 
Jack L. Chalker 
Madeleine Peyroux 
Lesley Gore 
Walter Payton 
Howard Metzenbaum