Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Oprah is more than an institution. Oprah is a very special star in the firmament. I can't imagine a greater success than she's enjoyed.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?