"Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years."

"This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two."

"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."

"First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down."

"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office."

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."