A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen

You said it was a sacrifice. Coming from me, it's a gift.

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.