I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.

In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.