Everyone learns in about the same way, but some people are better at it than others.

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

Maria Bello

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Fuentes

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Lewis Mumford

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Out of debt, out of danger.

Proverb

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

Al Yankovic

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success...

Dean Acheson

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Charles W. Eliot