Steve Martin Quotes

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

My plan was to walk by on my side of the street and not look over her way. This, I felt, was a very clever masculine move: to meet and ultimately seduce through no contact at all. She would be made aware of me as a mysterious figure, someone with no need of her whatsoever. This is compelling to a woman.

Finally, we do become wise, but then it's too late

He knows only what is right in front of him; she is aware of every incoming sensation that glances obliquely against her soft, fragile core

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Having few interests to sustain her, over the next few years she fell into a vacant, mental decline.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

You know, a lot of people come to me and they say: "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank you, I get lost sometimes,' while laying two fingers on his folded arm.

I guessed that one day the restrictions I imposed on myself would end. But first, it seemed that my range of possible activities would have to iris down to zero before I could turn myself around. Then, when I was static and immobile, I could weigh and measure every exterior force and, slowly and incrementally, once again allow the outside in. And that would be my life.

iPhone just synced perfectly with toaster. All is well.

might try for a doctorate in philosophy and become a teacher, as teaching is, after all, a form of show business.