Jules Renard
- On Writing
"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money." (While I appreciate the theory behind this quote, I have to disagree that it is the only such profession. Artists are another such field; many artists never made a penny off their work but were considered masters after their deaths by the very ones who turned their noses up at the artist's work while he was alive.).
Josh Greenfield, et. al.
- From the movie, "Oh, God: Book 2
I know this sounds like a cop-out, Tracy, but there's nothing I can do about pain and suffering. It's built into the system... But my problem was I could never figure out how to build anything with just one side to it... You ever see a front without a back?... A top without a bottom?... An up without a down?... OK. Then there can't be good without bad, life without death, pleasure without pain. That's the way it is. If I take sad away, happy has to go with it.
