The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

I think Eric Bana would be a good Superman. He's got that look. I think he'd be a great Superman.

I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.