I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure.

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.