"My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die." ― David Mamet Topic(s): Family More From David Mamet "I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface." "Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost." "There’s nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won’t ring from room service; your mother won’t be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you’re dead." More In Family "Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."― Ovid "I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know."― Andrea Arnold "When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves."― Anne Lamott