The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Compassion is the way you live your life every day.

A woman that you find different or strange, or whom you may envy or covet is deemed by you all to be a witch! Anything that you do not understand, you deem witchcraft!

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

[Alfred] Kinsey, as you well know, was a complete whacko. Most of his studies have been shown to be false.

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.

God is the source. Everything else is a resource.

Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.