I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

Demons. Angels. Both are the same, neither one cares that humanity gets in the way of their conflicts.

You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.