Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

I love writing - it's the best. But I really hate collaboration.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.

The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.