Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

If you play with dirt, no matter if you win or lose, either way you will get dirty.

Whatever unspeakable act done to you, write it down, read it, then ball up the paper & sling it hard into the wall. Expunge it from your soul

Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.

Everyone has a weakness but I have two, everything you say and everything you do.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

Everything is allowed, except interrupting a manifestation of love.

The less you think, the more you believe.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.