(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.

It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.