Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

Amy Poehler

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Robert Frost

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.

Horace Greeley

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

Bruce McCulloch

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

Robert Cialdini

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Roger Ebert

Saving love doesn't bring any interest.

Mae West

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Johann von Goethe

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

Paul Fussell

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Germaine Greer

I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

John Henry Carver

Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.

Joe Eszterhas