It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

I like doing movies with kids in them, and you're explaining things. They're teaching you and you're teaching them, and the audience can loop through that.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do.

I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.