The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

Trust always defeats every rebellion

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

If you hate your life, you haven't' seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't' fit you.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me.

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

Not all men are worthy of love.