More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Beso me without desire so I may hear her coo, that grew in you

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

I don't need a man in my life.

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.