The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images its dreams its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination Watergate Vietnam.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct only I was in a different dimension.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state it's around the world.

A couple of months ago I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said 'Well 200 days.' And I was like '200 days? Try 20!'

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

In America we no longer have an institutionalized organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf I can.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business its activities or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why on this day of all days I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion beauty is lifted from its face as a mask and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated ' to be able to walk runways to be able to do beauty ads to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened but we want our jobs back.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would I believe be something I would not be able or even want to do although with the amazing example of Leila I am no longer so sure.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

I'm a dad and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making let alone go out there have an idea and create it in their own lifetime.

I'm not alone I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.

The longer one is alone the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.