I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar, ' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl

The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

If your mind can go along with you it is a blessing. If your mind obeys you, it is a super-blessing.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer dress.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.