At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.