I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Everything that you know about yourself comes from thinking back, and I think I saw religion as the first big betrayal of me.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.