Success depends on your attitude

It's all very well going round with two fingers stuck up at the world, but what happens when the world turns round and sticks them back up at you?The world's a lot bigger than I am.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism, faddishness, and cliché.

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.