Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

People with satanic minds are dangerous, kill them.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

Show your instructions in actions as much as you can.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

I strongly believe that whenever there's failure or you feel like you've failed, it's only just the beginning, and you can only learn from it.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.