There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!