He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.