My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.

There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.