At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.