all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.