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

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.

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.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.