MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

I was lost for too longbut when i found you, i could feel it in my bones.You were my home.

Walking on water requires feet of faith.

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.

We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something where it doesn't belong. Contrary to what other people seem to think sometimes.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.