Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.


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From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
BILL WATTERSON
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
BILL WATTERSON
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried ...
BILL WATTERSON
I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.
BILL HADER
We use the people who are in the bullpen producing.
BILL EVANS
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detec...
BILL DEDMAN
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in m...
BILL DEDMAN
In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife...
BILL KREUTZMANN
The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...
BILL GATES
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all th...
BILL WATTERSON
I have an addiction to caffeine.
BILL AYERS
Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos...
BILL GATES
Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, ...
BILL BUFORD
Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to ge...
BILL MURRAY
Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'...
BILL RANCIC
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bus...
BILL DEDMAN
You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterfli...
BILL GROSS
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Me...
BILL DEDMAN
The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody...
BILL SIMMONS
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For w...
BILL MAHER
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name her...
BILL DEDMAN
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway....
BILL COSBY
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is hea...
BILL OWENS
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect t...
BILL SHUSTER
I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you c...
BILL PARCELLS
Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit...
BILL BUFORD
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the con...
BILL GATES
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
BILL MONROE
If you watch the 'Blue Collar Tour,' I was probably the least redneck of everybody.
BILL ENGVALL
I'm a blue collar guy.
BILL ENGVALL
When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but ...
BILL ENGVALL
A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his hea...
BILL ROBINSON
Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising st...
BILL DEDMAN