Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.