Craig Brown

One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.

Cleanliness is the scourge of art.

Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.