“Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but no...” — Mary Baker Eddy Quote

“Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections.”

“If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.”

“I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.”

“I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.”

“I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.”

“Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.”