I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.
We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.
One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
Eddie Dane: You dumpin' Leo for the guy who put a bullet in your brother?
Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings! Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?
[Max Bialystock drops him to the floor] Leo Bloom: Ooh, I fell on my keys!
Leo Bloom: Let's assume, just for the moment, that you are a dishonest man. Max Bialystock: Assume away.
