Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.