Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.