Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

For any display of displeasure or anger against injustice and ungodliness, there is a reward and a godly result.

I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.

DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.

For when Iwaltzed with Chris, I'd made him someone else.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

It's really a great luxury to have, to be able to go from big films to indie films, too. Because I'm on the job learning as an actor, and independent films is where I'm learning to act.

If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.