“A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.”
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“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
“All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
“In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."”
“People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.”
“This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.”
“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.”
“I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.”
“Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.”
“What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.”
“Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.”
“You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.”
“For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.”
“Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.”
“People who were so good. There were angels.”
“Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.”
“[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.”
“The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.”
“One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.”
“I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.”