I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Kindness is wisdom.

Philip James Bailey

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Will Estes

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Horace

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

Do you not see, first, that

Auberon Herbert

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Oscar Wilde

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Samuel Johnson

Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.

Susan Orlean

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

Harold H. Greene