To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

If you listen carefully, you get to hear everything you didn't want to hear in the first place.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality.