When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

I want to be a machine.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.