I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

Michael Ondaatje

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Simon Callow

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

John Gay

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Norman Vincent Peale

Don't forget to love yourself.

Soren Kierkegaard

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

Joe E. Lewis

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

Meg Tilly

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Kim Cattrall

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Judy Biggert

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

John Donne