Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Marcel Proust

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

Jean Charest

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Henry David Thoreau

I am a peace supporting Jew.

Alan Dershowitz

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

William Hague

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Daniel C. Dennett

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.

Danica McKellar

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Allen Boyd

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Russell Baker