Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.