Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost

Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.

I was surprised at how easy it was to get into hell, but then again, wasn't hell the easier path to take?

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.