"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."

"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."

"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."

"Savor the warmth of every sun-filled day, and the chill wind of every raging storm, weeds as much as flowers, the bitter and the sweet."

"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

"Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."

"Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish."

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from 'won't power' to 'will power.'"

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."