If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.

Ah... Much better" he said. "Backbiter, Luke called it. An appropriate name. Now that it is reforged comeplately, it shall indeed bite back

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

Evil news fly faster still than good.