We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

What do you want for your life? And how are you going to get it? Figure that out. And then follow me to gloryville.

I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.