"I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial."

“Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now”

“I am in the present and only the present matters to me”

“Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.”

“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”

“I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.”

“In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

“It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

“An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.”

Source : Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.3, Random House