Envy is a surefire party killer.

You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

That's the best part. The how.

Many people live alone and like it, but most of them live alone and look at it.

I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.

If I were to direct an episode, then there would be no one for me to blame, and that's not any fun. It's more about sitting in the back seat and trying to drive.