The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Art never comes from happiness

Darkness tests stars, but they shine.Storms test trees, but they stand.Adversity tests the great, but they soar.

I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.

You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn't like the taste.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.