I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
We did not cover ourselves with glory. We predicted the day before the war broke out that it was not going to break out.
I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.
It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I couldn't write, at least not by the bluntly and frequently expressed standards of anyone in a position to offer any encouragement and feedback.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
I never felt like a pop star. I never ever.
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
If I wore a peek-a-boo dress, it would be like turning in a false alarm.
The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.
What you get is no longer what you see.
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I’m going, all along.
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
I have absolutely no dance background at all. Nor a singing background. People, for some reason, think I can. And I don't know why that is. I sort intoned in Moulin Rouge, through facial hair and buck-teeth, but I don't really call it singing.
You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.
People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
It sounds really bad but I never actually wanted to play.
