Hold your pen and spare your voice.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images.

I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.