There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

I'm a moron because I don't want to lie in a gutter puking over myself... yeah right

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.