Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.

Stephen Richards

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

Bill Condon

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

Mayim Bialik

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Francois Rabelais

The French courage proceeds from vanity

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Bob Geldof

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

Henrik Ibsen

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

Jodi Picoult

The power of flies; they win battles, hinder our soul from acting, eat our body.

Blaise Pascal