Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency.

Life is a stampede to get to the top

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.