What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials.

He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

think of nothing things think of wind