If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

I help people achieve their dreams.

We can rely on the righteous Ruler.

Be who your are, do not be what people want you to be

I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I mean I love what I do, but that's the irritating side of it.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.