We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

There is room in history for all of us.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.