The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy.

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

The difficulty in dealing with a maze or labyrinth lies not so much in navigating the convolutions to find the exit but in not entering the damn thing in the first place. Or, at least not yet again. As a creature of free will, do not be tempted into futility.

If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and needs of my interpreters.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

If I wasn't acting, I would own a farm. Not like growing crops but maybe have a few animals like cows, and maybe an alpaca or a llama. I would chop wood all day. I would make a living doing that; it's, like, an idealistic scenario for me. It's very contrary to my upbringing, but maybe that's the appeal to it.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.