Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

Is that cancer curable or just treatable.

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time.

Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure?

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.