You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

I wish that one of these days somebody would learn to do [my art] so it doesn't die where it is.

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.