A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached.

I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.

As a matter of fact, when people ask where my 'point of view' comes from, it was there in one of the first sketches we wrote for [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.