To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

One is happy to report that Israel Shenker is still at the aerosol stage. His energy is still compressed. The result distinguishes him both as a Jew and as an observer of Jews.

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

A brilliant and challenging discussion presented with extraordinary clarity.

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.

Frozen is a phenomenon on an entirely new Disney scale.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.