The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Most writing doesn’t take place on the page

More disturbing than hurt is love when it's wrong.

It is true that we choose our life, but it’s also true that we can choose at any moment to change our path.

Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

We know a little bit about a lot of things. Just enough to make us dangerous.

I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners.

In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?