Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

The best things in life aren't things.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

The things that matter most are not things.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.

Please God, when I open my eyes, make this nightmare disappear.

The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.