Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I'm not one of those Star Wars guys that has seen [my favorite movie] 97 times.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.