Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.