It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

I had people that were coming on my own website and attacking me. You know, they were like Hillary Clinton supporters? It was very ugly.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.