Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward..

It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great abo….

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?..

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad..

People like to feel entitled, whether they're actually entitled or not..

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz..

This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mu….

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food..

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor..

I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people do….

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly h….

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics..

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor..

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide..

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic..

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't..

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to disc….

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all..

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin..

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become..

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complain….