In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
God writes a lot of comedy. . . the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.