Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Praying is learned by praying.

It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.

Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

Getting is more fun than having.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!