And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.
Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.
I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.
Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist. ' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'
[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn. ' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.