The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Eddie Cantor

There's some people who do things so bad it tears the fabric of the world, and then there's some people so sweet and good that they can feel it when the world gets torn. They see things, they know things, only they're so good and pure that they don't understand what it is that they're seeing.

Orson Scott Card

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

M Scott Peck

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

Michael Stipe

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Charles Dudley Warner

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

J. C. (James Cash) Penney

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Jean de la Bruyere

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Julie Burchill

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Jawaharlal Nehru