A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Being creative is having something to sell, or knowing how to sell something, or having sold something. It has taken over what we used to mean by being "wised up" knowing the tricks, the shortcuts.

What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.