Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

Chidi Okonkwo

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Thurber, The New York Time

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Rosie O'Donnell

If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.

Oswald Chambers, Daily Thoughts,

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Stephen King

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Neil Gaiman

Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Jennifer Paynter

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

Steven Wright

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

Nigel Lythgoe

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

Tony Kushner

I can see your dirtypillows.

Stephen King

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon