"It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty."

“I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, Ê»I would... but ye would not.ʼ”

“I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.”

“The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.”

“I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.”

Source : "Are You Man Enough to Skate with Mary?" by Steve Friedman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.”

“At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.”

“After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”

Source : "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.