There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

Never fall in love?""Always, " said the count. "I am always in love.

Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace.

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

We've got to have good schools in every zip code.

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.