Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Even on Facebook, like, I wouldn't share everything with my friends, because that's obnoxious.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

I've never done fashion school or anything like that. But I have good instincts.

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

I would love to be on 'Top Gear' as a star in a reasonably priced car.

We're not getting any younger.

Going in one more round when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference in your life.

My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'

I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.

I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.

I would like to get a house in Tuscany: aside from New York, cities do not appeal to me anymore.

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.

Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Acting... honestly, I'm so uncomfortable and so awkward that I could never think about setting foot in a theater room or acting class.