Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Touch water in the West and you touch everything.

He was trying to save both his faces.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

I do not know everything. I ought to keep learning.

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

Be faithful in the little things.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.