She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

Children see magic because they look for it.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

The medium obscured the message.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

That's why you did it. You wanted your world to collapse around you. You wanted everything to get as dark as possible.

Everything is mere opinion.

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.