Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

Leaving the feasibility of testicular transplants alone for the moment, she said, “It was mostly my mistake.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.

No one ever swung too slowly.

Garry Shandling was an actor's actor. He really cares about the performance. It was really interesting to watch him talk about motives and motivation and stuff. He really knows the craft.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.