Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.
Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.
I remember listening to an interview with Beyonce and she talked about how she and her husband, Jay-Z, have always made it a point to have the conversation about them be about their music, not about their business, not about their personal business.
Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.