My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

Derek's the nicest guy I know. He would never...you know." "He better not...you know!" Hayden bit out.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Tomorrow is Election Day. It's what they call the midterm elections, and you can cut the indifference with a knife. It's the day Americans leave work early and pretend to vote.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.