But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

In the light, he looked like a fallen angel asked to return to Hell.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

I have a green card now, but they can take that away, yeah, they can take that away at any moment. So please don't; please let me keep it.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

The moonlight was enough. It would do.