The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.

The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which they were, that the priest, nice as he was, didn't know what he was talking about.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it.