Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?

Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk?

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

I’m the same weight now as I’ve always been-even before having children-but I have to say there’s been a redistribution of the flesh!

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.

I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.