What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Only God can set the soul in bondage free.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.

I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.