"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."

"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."

"No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being.

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."