How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Be yourself. That is where you should always be.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Turbos are people who can't build engines.

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.