You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

And I think that a woman as chancellor can also serve as a good example,.

If it makes you feel any better we will be happy to attack a country that had nothing to do with it.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

Everybody is different. I can think of three black men I've dated and they couldn't be more different from each other.