Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Walter Savage Landor

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Shelley Winters

People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

Zack Snyder

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Anne Stevenson

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Gail Godwin

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

John Green

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

George Orwell

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside

Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

May Sarton

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

Georg Brandes

I tell ya, my family were always big drinkers. When I was a kid, I was missing. They put my picture on a bottle of Scotch.

Rodney Dangerfield

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin