Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

I have a double policy, which would also solve immigration: I would stand at the border of New York City and I would say, "You can come here to live, but you can't come here to visit."

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.