Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one.

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.

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down, some break records

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.