There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Let my enemies devour each other.

In married life three is company and two none.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.