You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

It takes a lot of good beer to make great wine

Sonship is our destiny and our inheritance is wrapped up in discovery.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

Losers doesn't require a miracle to Win.They just keep on fighting

I am becoming better with each day.

Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.