I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.
Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.
I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
Spending money more than you can earn is spinning a rope around your own neck.
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
That wouldn't shock me, if you see any more, I'm willing to buy them for that.
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.
All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.
I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
A little of what you fancy does you good.
A man is known by his friends.
A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client.
A new broom sweeps clean.
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
A picture paints a thousand words.
A place for everything and everything in its place.
A poor workman always blames his tools.
A problem shared is a problem halved.
A prophet is not recognized in his own land.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
A swarm in may is worth a load of hay; a swarm in june is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in july is not worth a fly.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
