A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Live for a reasonLive with passion.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

In the town of broken dreams the streets are filled with regret, maybe down in lonesome town I can learn to forget.

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Where there's a will there's a dead person.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.