If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, its People First, Planet Second and then Profits.

There must be something I am doing that will make sense to somebody some day.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

I'm a songwriter first.

There never could be a Booyakasha without a Cowabunga for me. They really do mean the same thing. Cowabunga is like "Bring it on!" and Booyakasha is like "Bring it on!" It's the same thing.

We formed in 1993 to make it clear that we don't take our marching orders from anyone overseas, we have no connection to the Muslim Brotherhood.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or 6 feet long.