We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

People say that death is a part of life and there must be something to it, but I just see it as bad news and I want everybody to stop sugarcoating it.

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.

I am plagued by doubts.