When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.