I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.
Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.