The world is full of Buddhas but they're sleeping.
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.
I was always on my oddy knocky.
Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.