Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Horror is the removal of masks.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.