A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

murder is not polite.

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

The secrets of success are getting started and being persistent.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than the actual comedy in most cases.

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.