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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.