will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?

The book is man's best invention so far.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

A child is the root of the heart.

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

I was reading so much about myself in the papers that was not me.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

It's okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don't point