A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning sleep late.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

Working with people the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship then it will take care of itself.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Marriage for a woman at least hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

What gay culture is before it is anything else before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain is a culture of friendship.

There has to be chemistry in a duet but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction you lose something.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free it was 1972 with the exception of two little one-shot one-song things. But that's just for friends out of friendship for the people involved and also because it was fun.

You are almost not free if you are teaching a group of graduate students to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged just a friendship.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

When I was growing up my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is) and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

It may be a cold clammy thing to say but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.