The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision--it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

O God guide my steps in every circumstance.

Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.