Missed Opportunity famous quotes

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.