The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness when in fact I am amiable indulgent affectionate shy and rather timid at heart.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

I'm Dave Chappelle and I'm a chronic masturbator.

Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them.

I'm always trepidatious and excited about what I do. I wouldn't choose to do something, unless I am really excited about it.

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.