Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again.

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

Music is the language of soul

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

It is within you that the divine lives.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful?

Honestly I've enjoyed every part that I've done. Literally. Every one.

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.