In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Friends are what God gives you to make up for your family.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.