We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe ...The implications of our beliefs are frightening.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

Civilization depends on morality.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.