Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.