I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

Douglas Wood

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

Nelson Mandela

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.

William Hodding Carter, Jr.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

Zack de la Rocha

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway, Notes on the N

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Moli

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

Victoria Woodhull

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

George Bernard Shaw