Work is the province of cattle.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Every burden is a blessing.

My advice to Robin is listen to your heart, do what you feel. Follow your heart in love and marriage as you would in careers, and you'll be fine. Robin has a great heart. He's a fabulous father.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

Some experiences simply do not translate. you have to go to know.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.