Pastoral Resources

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.