To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

When a man decides to destroy his past, he automatically ends up destroying the part of his future that he will need the most

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it.

Maxim 28: If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for bringing ammunition home with you.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

People love drama, and if you aren't really interested in perpetuating that, it keeps you from exploding on a mainstream stage. I'm totally fine with that.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.