About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance