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Charm is makeup for men.

Do doh da dada tay

Can I finish what I wanna say? I don’t wanna interupt your interruption, dude. Are those ears strickly ornamental or do ever use them?

Well, I was born a coal miner’s daughter / In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler / We were poor but we had love / That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of

Look…I choose peace but, say…Don’t walk up on me wrong. This Tea and Incense can turn into Colt 45 and Newports if NEED be, OK?

If this isn’t nice, then what is?

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Russian warship, go f*ck yourself.

I’m guaranteed to rock I make the ladies scream and shout I’m bound to wreck your body and say “turn the party out”

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Do the math, and you’ll find that a million seconds is about 12 days. And a billion seconds? That’s about 32 years.

Man alive!

Let the machine do the dirty work.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

I’m interested in architecture, but it’s no good thing being an architect if you are interested in architecture. It’s like being a butcher if you are interested in animals.

Beauty is temporary, ugliness lasts forever.

Lack of focus is why we have a lack of greatness.

It’s not the easiest thing to try and put a smile on a face. But it’s always worth it.

Please, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma‐maniac, on your editorial staff?

The Americans are very impressionable people; they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I am not upset at all that I ended up on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.

How to write a good short story:

Downtown L.A. looks like they started to build Chicago and then gave up…and let it become a sprawling suburb.

If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

It was as undesigned as possible.

Hello, World!