Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

It’s pain that changes our lives.

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

"Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way."

"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks."

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."

"It's pain that changes our lives."

"I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden."

"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent."

"Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything."

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."

"You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither."

"... you're nuts but you're welcome here."

"...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart."

"We've had some fun tonight...considering we're all gonna die someday."

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

"I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them."

"First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."

"How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?"

"I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone."

"She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart."

"I gave my cat a bath the other day...they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that..."

"The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful."

"I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart."

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."

"Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration."

"The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead."

"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."

"She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care."

"Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke."

"You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies." Steve Martin"

"Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties."

"Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything."

"A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred."

"I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience."

"A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair."

"I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian."

"Or is it that I think too much?"

"Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours."

"Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river."

"Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself."

"Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life."

"The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible."

"Be undeniably good."

"You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it."

"There are few takers for the quiet heart."

"...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives."