I'm married to a beautiful and talented woman who can lift your spirits just by looking at you.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.