Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

compromise is the work of mature people.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.