Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Love is a state of being.

On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Speak low, if you speak love.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Men want to make women happy.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like ‚Man of Tai Chi‘ just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I’m looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.