I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.

It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all "ooh, ah" in the beginning and then suddenly, without warning, she had to get out, out, out!

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

No regrets, it's always moving forward and feeling like I did the right things for the right reasons. It's good music with good people, that's what I'm about.

Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.