I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

We are born alone we live alone we die alone. Everything in between is a gift.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men if they cant get what they want by being smart they can get it by being dumb.

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Singing is one of the most important components to me. That's kinda how it all started.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

I feel sorry for the person who cant get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over – except when they are different.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

I tape every game I can get my hands on. Every game that's on TV, I tape it. My daughter, Terry Hill, lives in Eureka, and she has a satellite dish, so she tapes what I can't get. I try to keep up with what everybody is doing, so if the phone rings, I'll be ready.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

In many ways I think 'Fly From Here' is a return to classic Yes; people seem to have been really enjoying it, integrated into the set along with the old material.

I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And people forget, they talk about 'Spinal Tap,' but that wasn't... this was a mockumentary a long time before that. It was one of the early, early sort of mockumentaries.

We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.

I don't care if you hate me now, I already know you only treat me nice when you think I am useful to you.