I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

The best things in life aren't things.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

The things that matter most are not things.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

Choosing to unconditionally love others is a path to deep joy.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

If we rest, we shall renewal our strength.

no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance.

Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.