My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

Thomas Carlyle

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Denis Diderot

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

Nancy Meyers

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

Haley Joel Osment

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

David Mamet

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Henry Ford

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

Ian McEwan, A Move Abroad, prefa

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Margaret Sanger

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Rip Torn

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

Ron Atkinson