Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

Books had taught me new ideas and had shown me ways of life that I would not have known about otherwise, and they offered a refuge when, like now, real life seemed too hard.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.

I was told to be accurate be brief and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

I am so excited. I love IIFA. I think it's great to meet all the people from your fraternity in one place, that too out of the country.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I've always played the guys that end up having the wisecracks.