We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

W. Somerset Maugham

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Josh Lucas

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

Camille Anna Paglia, From a comm

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved with distractions.

Roald Dahl

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

C.S. Lewis

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

E. M. Cioran

People want economy and they'll pay almost any price to get it.

Lee Iacocca

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Albert Pike

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

James Madison

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin