If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter is a matter of perspective: it all depends on the observer and the verdict of history.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.