If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”
“I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.”