When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

You solve a problem not by eliminating the problem but by changing the perception and awareness of the problem.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

Confidence in nonsense is required.

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.