All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

I never write a play with an eye to film.

How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.