Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands, for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty

You're not alone." Ellie snorted through her tears. "I'm never alone.

Romantic love is painful.

Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.