Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Jim mentioned I was an ALEC member, and that's correct.

We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.

I cant read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

A lot of people want a shortcut. I find the best shortcut is the long way, which is basically two words: work hard.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.