I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death. Listen to them.

Management cares about only one thing paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time.

It is not an easy thing to put on a wet sock.

We tend to regard history as true and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as untrue. That's always puzzled me.

I'm the most private person.

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I'm in England so often I haven't really left, but Americans aren't at all like they're misrepresented through their politicians.

Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.

Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it.

That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the "best" in your chosen field, whatever it is.

That's what I love about how diverse our team is - we have such different body types, yet together, we build the best team there is. I think we're stronger together than individually.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Game management, game decisions, adjustments, seeing things during games - it's all important.

I can't think without my glasses.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.