Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

I love advertising because I love lying.

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.