I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

All my muscles are in my face. I have a very muscular face. I'm good with faces. I always have been.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

There have been times when you doubt yourself. You don't know if you're working on the right things.

I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution.

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.

The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.

There have been times in my life where I was asked to do things and I didn't feel comfortable with it.

We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

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