My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

Cher

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Cyril Connolly

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

Berke Breathed

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

Katherine Heigl

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Betty Greene

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Johann Most

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

Adam Brody

I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.

Ashley Tisdale

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

Barney Frank

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Mae West

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo