{"author":"Craig Ferguson","author_id":"Craig+Ferguson","total_quotes":87,"quotes":[{"text":"The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["eternity","forever","infinity","love","paradox","time","universe"],"id":5223,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["alcoholism","change","christmas","death","suicide"],"id":5231,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["america","citizenship","thought"],"id":5570,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["control","fear"],"id":6073,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["hypocrisy","parenthood"],"id":9392,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["poetry"],"id":14378,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["alcoholism","disease","pathology","recovery","rehab"],"id":14937,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["addiction","control","writing"],"id":15047,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["intelligence","misconceptions","status-quo"],"id":16226,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["drugs","humor","rock-and-roll"],"id":19262,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}