History! Read it and weep!

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.