As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

P.T. Barnum

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Steve Martin

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

Irving Layton

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon

Mark Twain

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Mildred Newman

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Venus Williams

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

Jason Reitman

All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

Ernest Hemingway

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

Terry Pratchett