History is always changing.

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

Stephen Hunter

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Mark Twain

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.

Steven Redhead

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

Janet Jackson

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Susie Orbach

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Samuel Beckett

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

Salma Hayek

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Aristotle