Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.

Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy for their dream that they forget all the good things they already have.

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.

How can you lose when you're doing you?

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.