If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

Nothing ever ends.

You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

I'm only four weeks out from birth, so I still have a couple more weeks before I can work out - which is fine with me. I love the feeling of working out, but I've never been a gym rat, ever, so now, it's all about taking in what I can if it's good for the baby, because it all translates to her in a way.

To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone

I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.