Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Empathy comes from being empathized with.

You can possess what you dream of.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciating pain, and then white out absence of pain, and the subconscience thought that I want to go back.

Methinks love maketh men like Angels.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.