There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are an ocean in a drop.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy

In the sun I feel as one.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.