When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world.' If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.