Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

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

Carlton was a blade

It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

It is the busiest man who has time to spare.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Why would some all powerful being create creatures capable of reason and then demand that they act in a manner contrary to their creation?

Men are attracted to me because of my personality!

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.