William Shakespeare Quotes

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

In my drive to be the perfect artist, I've left a lot of living to the side.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.

So many people in the gay community have always asked me to come out, say it like it is, and help our cause. But for me... I think my biggest statement I could give to the world is to be strong being myself... you have to make something of yourself, and that's what makes us strong.

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

Partying isn't every aspect to my personality.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.