To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.