It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Memories are what makes each person different.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami.