We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices.

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 love baseball. You know, it doesn’t have to mean anything. It’s just very beautiful to watch.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.