I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Hope attracts chances.

In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.