In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?

What God made, God loves, because it's inconceivable that God should make anything that He didn't love.

Sometimes there is no solution. Sometimes there's simply an end.

I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.

There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.