London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

Don’t be a prude, or snobbish, but let your life “glow” for Christ. We are lamps shining in the darkness.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

Who would bring light must endure burning.

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.