Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

Yeah, I think we did the term muppets before we got the show sam and friends - a few months after I started working.

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

"A best friend is a sister that destiny forgot to give you."

Yes, i'm catholic; i'm proud of it. But I had lots of protestant friends.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favour is your friend, and that you can do a favour to almost anyone.

You are my friend when you can guard my failure, challenge my thought and celebrate my success.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

You can tell ‘em what ah say if you wants to. Dat’s just de same as me ‘cause mah tongue is in mah friend’s mouf.