Of Orson Welles: It's like meeting God without dying.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

My grandson is mad at me. He's mad at me because I squandered his college fund on Spanx. It's a lot, but there's a lot going on here.

I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me.