When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

The only thing more amorous than pretending to be marriage partners is pretending to be capitalist ones. Money is less essential for success in capitalism than in marriage, so you can amuse yourself without worry.

Bauvard

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Karen Armstrong

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Elizabeth Moon

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

John Hersey

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

David Ogilvy

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.

Edvard Munch

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

Howie Mandel

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As of 1992, they'll be called European Economic Community fries.

Steven Wright

A good end is the reward of the pious.

Abdu'l-Baha