The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

The quality of conversation appears to be a key factor in the evolution of an organization.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.

She represents the country Alamonia.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

For a true disciple, the repetition of the mantra is like food.