Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
Dreams can be dangerous things.
You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.
If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you are now.
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.
America is a country of excess.
We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.
If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.