You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.The two are rarely compatible.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

You have to realize what you don't know before you can learn about it.

I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Well, I got married about two and a half years ago, and that's been a big change in my life.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.