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

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.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.

When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.