A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

William Styron

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

Matt Damon

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Edward George BulwerLytton

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

Rodney Dangerfield

The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.

Claudia Pemberton

Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

Andrew P. Harris

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

George Sand

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Billie Jean King

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

Marco Rubio

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield