After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

Certainty always produces questions uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

Im a fart in a gale of wind a humble violet under a cow pat.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

If someone does not care about losing you, then move on. There are many people out there that would die if it meant losing you.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop language and allows them to see themselves in a way that isn't right or wrong, because if they draw an animal with five legs instead of four, nobody's criticizing them for it.

I was really competitive with myself.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

What is the definition of guts Grace under pressure.

To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.

We must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the thing is happening just by itself, you don't need those techniques.

If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created.

Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.

Faith is timeless possibility.

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.