What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

I am not a sentimental person.

I should not mind anything at all.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.