I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press, I've been both. It's impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.