Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Ben Hecht

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

Stephen Richards

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Erica Jong

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

H. Ross Perot

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean de la Bruyere

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

Will Smith

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Barry Goldwater

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Roland Barthes

You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.

Scott Sorrell

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Eleanor Roosevelt