That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life.

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

To cite Enzo Ferrari, we will always sell one less Ferrari than the market wants, that's a policy that will never change.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.