Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Louis C. K.

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Susan Faludi

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Marguerite Duras

When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.

Dudley Ryder

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Stendhal

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Horace Mann

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

Ryan Gosling

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb