If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.