Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.

A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world.

The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

Be faithful anywhere you find yourself

Player for player, there’s 
no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

I think it's our job to be happy and find happiness for ourselves.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

Be aware of yourself and know yourself. No matter how much you have learned and how much you know, if you don't know yourself you don't know anything.

I once buggered a man unconscious. I'm lying, he was already unconscious when I found him