When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

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.

When someone succeeded in quickly making a lot of money in America, people said he had made his fortune.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality and physical characteristics warts and all and from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

I am open, free and loving.

My personal style changes wherever I am. When I'm in Ibiza, I'm a bit girlier because there's an opportunity to be more romantic and dress up for the beach scene. Whereas in New York, I tend to go for suiting and tailoring that almost feels like weaponry for the city - but I think I'm quite playful no matter what.

Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

If you rest, you rust.

I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Going to the Arctic was immense for me.

My life's been surreal from start to finish.

Because I get nervous all the time. It's weird but I think it's fun and it's refreshing. It's always good to be that way. That keeps me appreciative of everything.

Im a control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

A good girl gives you happiness and a bad girl gives you experience both are essential in life so enjoy every girlfriend

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.