I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life not something separated from it.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.

I've always been the porky boy in my head.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

When life goes to pieces - Try Quilting!

Why go out for hamburger when you have steak at home?

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get was written later by Christian monks. But there were occasional reportings and recordings of people who had traded usually with the Vikings.

I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.