I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

Magic happens to those who believe in it."-Zonosh, Wizard of the Elements

don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

America was founded by religious people; devout people who came here because they wanted freedom of religion, It's what made America different from every other country.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.