The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jerry Orbach

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

Jerry Saltz

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Molly Ivins

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Alison Bechdel

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Edmund Wilson

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.

Imelda Marcos

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Thomas Robert Malthus

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Edward W. Howe

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

Jeff Daniels

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Michael Korda