In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

The president's dead, no one can find his head, its been missing for two weeks. But no one seemed to notice it.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.