“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

“Once is never. Twice is always.”

“I will confess to you that, you know, one of the statements that’s been attributed to me that I’m sort of proud of is somebody said, you know, “What do we do about Osama bin Laden?” And they asked me, “Can we forgive him?” And I said, “Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting.” And that’s the way I feel about him, really. [8 February 2003 show of Meet The Press, NBC News]”

“Look on the bright side,” said Simon, “If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I’m not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”