"My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life."

“Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.”

“There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.”

“I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.”

Source : Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.

“Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.”

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

“Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

Source : Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”