I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.