Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.

Proverb

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence -- a lot passes you by -- simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Anita Brookner

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Lord Byron

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

Salman Rushdie

I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

Henry James

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

Anthony Anderson

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Orison Swett Marden

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.

Mick Jagger

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

J. J. Abrams

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

Carmen Electra

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

H. L. Mencken