"Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks."

“Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.”

“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”

“I look like Walt Disney just threw up.”

Source : "Whose Line is it Anyway?" with Drew Carey (Episode 115), www.oocities.org. March 10, 1999.

“I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the computer. I like a typewriter because I am such a slow typist. I edit as I am committing it to paper. I like to see the words before me and I go, "Yeah, that's it." They appear before me and they fit. I don't usually take large parts out. If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it. Sometimes,you gotta step back a little bit and take a look at what you're doing.”

“An artist should be as impartial as God.”

“Create your day in advance by thinking the way you want it to go, and you will create your life intentionally.”

“With so many thousand joys, is it not black ingratitude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment?”

“Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say”.”