Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.

Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.