Writing is a little bit like prostitution. First you do it for love. Then you do it for a few friends. Then you do it for money.
All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them.
Why so many eager to hear the word of “I love you” and so few care to see?
When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love; only few will understand that it is the end of our past.
Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.
A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between.
Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Most men take more out of life than they give to it. A few give more to life than they take out of it. The world runs because of such men.
I'm probably one of the few people who can say I did all three types of state sector schooling.
We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.
You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.
The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development.
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings?
Right after the assassination of Osama bin Laden, amid all the cheers and applause, there were a few critical comments questioning the legality of the act.
