The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Whole life have balance. Everything be better. Understand?

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

Look eye! Always look eye!

I didn't have a childhood.

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.

The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.