I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.