As far as I know, no one in the Kaufman or Hart clan was the basis for anyone in the play. I think we all wish we had a Grandpa, Penny, and Mr. De Pinna in our families.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

some genius of the South With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth, Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

I have the coolest parents.

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.