You Quotes
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
