Ask a glass of water why it pities the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Without love we are not truly living.

I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously.

Hate never ends hate. Only love can.

Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.