If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.

Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.

Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful.

If you're going to start with melody you'll need some tympani, I think.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of good looks.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

My feet are my foundation, and they should always feel good!

Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

I thank God for creating gay men. Because if it wasnt for them us fat women would have no one to dance with.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you cant change.

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.