That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, ” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.

Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?

Ever since my famous battle with Python, I've had a phobia of scaly reptilian creatures. (Especially if you include my stepmother, Hera. BOOM!)

Religion is the way we honour our ancestors' errors.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?"

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.