This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action choose the bolder.

Never, never, never give up.

I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.

It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.