It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.

There's not a woman in the world who won't buy a Lie she wants to Believe

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

This life is a journey and it is one that can be snatched right out of our hands. Therefore it is wise to know where you are going when you leave this life behind.

That’s the thing about jazz: it’s free flowing, it comes from your soul.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.

Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.