Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.