Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.