I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

I knew, really knew, I would never die with my song unsung.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

There is a word we haven't used yet: virginity... To make a photograph, the plate must be virgin, but your eye as well.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.