Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.

Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

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remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough for someone to steal ... and if you're making that much, you'll be able to take your pick of good agents.

Stephen King

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, Hey, you have two different colored socks on. I said, Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness.

Steven Wright

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

Stephen Richards

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

John Schlesinger

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'

Zac Efron

Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

Gary Bauer

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Brian Lumley

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

Owen Meredith