An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

The world just wants your authentic truth.

Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended to be pro-cyclical, since more workers voluntarily quit their jobs when they are more confident about their ability to find new ones and when firms are competing more actively for new hires.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

I am pro-freedom.

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds “ they mature slowly.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day.