"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering."

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."

"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."

"There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."

"But psychoanalysis has taught that the deada€”a dead parent, for examplea€”can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts."

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."