There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.

Jon Hamm

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

J.K. Rowling

Nannies love working in our house because they never know who's gonna walk through the door.

Ruby Wax

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Anne Lamott

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Paul Theroux

We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

Michel Foucault

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

Lee Child

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Alexander Maclaren

I hope we never lose sight of one thing: it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney Company

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Albrecht Durer

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon