Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Dare not to permit your trials and tribulations to push you into disappointing yourself. You truly owe success and happiness to your life.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Is not poetry the food of love?

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.