I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Good music always defeats bad luck

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

And it hit me like a ton of bricks - that people will put you on a pedestalto only later pull it from under you. Stability.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom's choice.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.