The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

I make my own music and I don't criticize others.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.