For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

In torment, there was release.In the darkness, there was light.In solitude, there were companions.

People don't care what you name it, G. They like pie for what's on the inside.

Once a decision was made, I didn't worry about it afterward...

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Outrageous generosity is a character quality of people who win with money.

You have to get the second season by acquiescing to a third season.

You must do what you enjoy.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

That was a kiss for the record books.

Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.