I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

Suzanne Fields

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.

Orson Scott Card

Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Mark Twain

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Swoosie Kurtz

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

The business of the law is to increase the business of the law

Charles Dickens

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Grace Hansen

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Giacomo Casanova