Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

I will not give up on love.

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words.

As we sin, so do we suffer

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

If Livingstone don't keep their discipline the inevitable could happen.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.