Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Bill Watterson

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Lillian Hellman

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Laura Dern

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Laurence Sterne

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Randall Jarrell

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich A. Hayek

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Jennifer Garner

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

Stephen King

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

N. K. Jemisin

That low vice, curiosity!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

Percy Wynham Lewis

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Rick Perry