writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

History repeats herself.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Love is all there's time for.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.