Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
They said just keep doing my thing, don't try to change anything, which I won't.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
I've been fortunate when in government to have a car at my disposal, which takes away the nightmare of getting a taxi.
There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
