I don't think I'm ready for New York.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had to work, but no person at all need be a servant.

My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

I'm a compulsive buyer. Anything beautiful I see I want. That's how we got the Waldorf Astoria. I told Conrad Hilton, 'I want the Waldorf,' and he bought it. The only problem was I divorced him before the escrow was finished.

ISIS may be a perversion of Islam, but Islamic it is, just as Christian beliefs about the sanctity of the unborn child explain why some Christian fundamentalists attack abortion clinics and doctors.

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship then you are living an illusion.

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.

Why would you want to do anything else but rescue a pet?

I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

Spoiled. That's all it's about can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

Every newspaper feels it must have an astrology column, and even in the Carleton University bookstore this morning, I found books on astrology for sale.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

To realize that your mother's love life has been far more interesting than one's own is a weird thing to discover.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be.

Art is such an important part of our culture.