There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing..

But, you know, there's another group that really runs the show. It's very shadowy, just as you've described... Those of us in the Congress of the Uni….

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see..

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a….

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off..

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying some….

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate..

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

I don't see the point in working just to be working..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do..

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestu….

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

‎A change of work is the best rest..

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more..

Love which economizes is never true love..

Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since..

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.