I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Enjoy every sandwich.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done

The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly ... My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I'm still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.