I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.