I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Leo Tolstoy

Luck marches with those who give their very best

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Jules Verne

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

Elias Canetti

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Newton Gatambia

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

Sri Anandamayi Ma

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Habits change into character.

Ovid

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

Oliver Platt