All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

... the more I seek, the less I find.

How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.

but darling if he loved you, would he want to see you cry?

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.