Simplicity of appearance can cause hindrance to success when you are poor. But the same simplicity is admired in a rich and successful person.

I do not trust people who do not wear a wrist watch.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart. They are a big reason I'm a storyteller because they are two of the best.

The Order of Merciful Aid provided merciful aid, usually on the edge of a blade or the burn of a bullet.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

I love all kinds of music. Everybody knows that Nas is my favorite lyricist in the universe. I'd love to collaborate with him on something.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.