In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night.