My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.

I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it.

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.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.