The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately.

Being stupid is second step in curing your stupidity.

The victories are what I judge things on.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.