Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life’s path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow’s road.

I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

To write is human, to receive a letter: Devine!

Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

Autumn flings her fiery cloak over the sumac, beech and oak.

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.

Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.

'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.