Don't Hope More Than You're Willing To

I'm Beginning To Feel That The Real Endangered Species On Planet Earth Are Not The Whales And The Elephants But Those Of Us Who Can Laugh At The World And Ourselves. ... I Fear The Dry Turn Of The American Mind, This Focus On The Literal, As Much As I Fear Our Capacity For Self-destruction. We've Become Hagridden By Facts, Obsessed With Product Instead Of Process. Where's The Energetic Wit, The Looney Outlook, The Frivolity, The Lightness Of Comforting Laughter? It Has Become Fashionable To Know And Unfashionable To Feel, And You Can't Really Laugh If You Can't Feel.

I Mean, What Do People Talk About When They're Married?" "their Kids, I Guess." "maybe That's All They Have In Common.

In Art As In Politics We Must Deal With People As They Are Not As We Wish Them To Be. Only By Working With The Real Can You Get Closer To The Ideal.

I Believe In A Lively Disrespect For Most Forms Of Authority.

Leroy Bet Me I Couldn't Find A Pot Of Gold At The End, And I Told Him That Was A Stupid Bet Because The Rainbow Was Enough.