If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

You have to choose your own destiny.You have to choose your own path in life.

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.