We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.