The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Great, ' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

It is so exhilarating to realize that this is all here for our expansion and for our pleasure.

What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.