... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

Think about what is in front of you, if you must think.

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.