The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I don't know any sad songs. Except for the funny ones.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone’s desire.

Creation is much in need of ordering.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.