The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.

This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn't sound so bad at that.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.