People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.