Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

Who ya gonna call?" "Ghostbusters!" "That phrase is ruined forever.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

I still consider myself a feminist.