The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

I'd rather be lucky than good.

Being a good example teaches others to be good.

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

If you do eight shows a week it's just too difficult to try to put everything that you can together.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

Christianity is the complete negation of common sense and sound reason.

We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.