There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.
The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
I don't want the public perceiving us as the taunting, provocative ghost hunters. We do that only to the bad spirits who we know are attacking the living.
My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.
Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
I have been very successful in handling people who hurl abuse simply by being patient. Ignoring them is the best policy because afterwards, it's the fans that criticise these so-called celebrities for their bad conduct.
Events like Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy were unlike any weather disasters before. They showed the world who suffers the most from the impacts of extreme weather: low-income families and communities of color.
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
I'm proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don't have money.
I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing.
Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor, and I do my job.
