I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

My whole life is my work.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

I am not God but something similar

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in comedy.